Migration of storage when the virtual machine has several data stores

How can I (or can I) use Storage vMotion on ESX4.0 U1 to migrate part of a virtual computer to a new data store?  I have a virtual machine with 5 data stores attached and move 1 data warehouses to a LUN of larger size.  What is the best method?

On the "Select the data store" window, click on the button "Advanced". You can specify the location of each VMDK and configuration files.

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