Relocating a Virtual
Machine in a Linked Virtual Machine Group
You can move the
virtual machines in a linked virtual machine group between datastores and save
storage. he contents of the delta disk might not be as important as the
contents of the base, and you can save storage by removing the delta disk.
For more information, see
Figure 1.
Relocating a Linked Virtual Machine
relSpec = new VirtualMachineRelocateSpec() relSpec.diskMoveType = VirtualMachineRelocateDiskMoveOptions.moveChildMostDiskBacking relSpec.datastore = localDatastore myVm.Relocate(relSpec)
You can relocate multiple linked virtual
machines to a new datastore, but keep all shared storage during the relocation.
To achieve the relocation, relocate the desired virtual machines one by one,
giving the option to allow reattaching to an existing disk, as shown in
Relocating Multiple Linked Virtual Machines.
Relocating Multiple Linked Virtual
Machines
relSpec = new VirtualMachineRelocateSpec() relSpec.diskMoveType = VirtualMachineRelocateDiskMoveOptions.moveAllDiskBackingsAndAllowSharing relSpec.datastore = targetDatastore myVm.Relocate(relSpec)