I can storage vMotion two popular VMS with shared disks?

I have an ESX 3.0.2 Server with local storage and two ESX 3.5 with fiber channel SAN servers. Two VM sharing disks and run it on the computer with only the local storage. Can I use storage vMotion to move these to a 3.5 servers and more at the SAN?

If not; can I migrate the servers (when closed) to the SAN and 3.5 servers without breaking the links on shared disks?

If you close the virtual machines and migrate them, you should be able to access the disks - as the sVmotion update pointers in the vmx file.

If you upsize and lose access to the disk, you will need to do is open the.vmx file for each virtual computer and update the path specified for each disc, not too hard to fix at all. -If you don't like that, you can simply remove and re-add the disc in the VM properties

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