Migrate a VM from the Cloud File System to the SDDC Datastore

For workloads that require higher random IOPs, such as database VMs, you can use Storage vMotion to migrate those VMs from the cloud file system datastore to the recovery SDDC vSAN datastore.

After running a recovery plan with VMs using the Run VMs live on the cloud file system option, VMs in the plan are running on the datastore named ‘ds01’ on the SDDC. You can migrate those VMs to the SDDC datastore named 'WorkloadDatastore' using Storage vMotion on the vSphere Client on the SDDC.

Note: You must migrate the entire VM and all its files and disks, or the VM cannot be failed back to the protected site.

Procedure

1. Log in to the vSphere Client on the recovery SDDC, and expand the SDDC and cluster where the VM is running.
2. Select the VM and make sure that this VM is running on the ds01 datastore (the cloud file system datastore).
3. Right-click and select Migrate.
4. For migration type, select ‘Change storage only’ and then click Next.
5. In the table of datastores list, select WorkloadDatastore (the SDDC vSAN datastore) as the destination for the migration. Click Next.
6. Retain the default settings and click Finish.