frankdenneman Frank Denneman is the Chief Technologist for AI at VMware by Broadcom. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as a podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman

VM templates and Storage DRS

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Please note that Storage DRS cannot move VM templates via storage vMotion. This can impact load balancing operations or datastore maintenance mode operations. When initiating Datastore Maintenance mode, the following message is displayed:

As maintenance mode is commonly used for array migrations of datastore upgrade operations (VMFS-3 to VMFS-5), remember to convert the VM template to a virtual machine first before initiating maintenance mode.

frankdenneman Frank Denneman is the Chief Technologist for AI at VMware by Broadcom. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as a podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman

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3 Replies to “VM templates and Storage DRS”

  1. I guess it won’t be long before we find out for sure, but I really hope that this ridiculous restriction gets lifted in the next update. Not being able to storage vMotion a set of powered-off files while being able to pull off live migrations just doesn’t make sense.

  2. Some VMware customers (myself included) have brought this up in the VMware Customer Socialcast community & the Community Manager (@susangude) said it’s being re-requested. If you want to add your voice maybe ask her to add you to the community?

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