Moving VM from Unassigned Drive(s) to pool devices

[josephmqiu]

Is it possible to move VM currently setup with unassigned devices to a pool VDisk?

 

Made the mistake of setting up daily windows VM on unassigned drive, should have just used pool storage from the start.

[John_M]

First create your pool. With the VM stopped, copy the image file from its current location to a suitable location on the pool, something like this:

 

mkdir -p /mnt/my-pool/domains/Windows
cp --sparse=always /mnt/disks/my-unassigned-disk/domains/Windows/vdisk1.img /mnt/my-pool/domains/Windows

 

then edit the VM configuration to point to the new location. When you've tested it are are happy, delete the image file on the unassigned disk (or keep it as a backup). The action of making a domains directory in the root of your pool creates a user share called domains. You'll want to check that share's properties and make sure it's set to cache:prefer or cache:only so that the mover doesn't move the contents to the array.