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consolidating vm with multiple vmdk files on seperate datastores to one datastore

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esxi 5.1, vcenter 5.1.  single host, 6 local datastores (12 physical disks configured in 6 raid1 arrays). no central storage. foundation plus license. veeam enterprise in use, backup destination is a NAS storage device.

 

i have a redhat VM that was configured with multiple partitions pointed to different datastores.  the vendor app required REDHAT, SQL, LOGS, APPS partitions to all be on separate physical datastores.  we are not using shared storage.

 

vmname: redhat3

 

Local datastores:

DS1: DELL0001-- esxi, vcenter

DS2: DELL0203 -- redhat

DS3: DELL0405 -- db

DS4: DELL0607 -- logs

DS5: DELL0809 -- apps

DS6: DELL1011 -- vm templates (plenty of room for all hard disks)

 

hdd1.JPG

hdd2.JPG

hdd3.JPG

hdd4.JPG

 

the issue i have is that all VM harddisks have the vm name: ie redhat3.vmdk.  I need to move all harddisks to datastore6 (DELL1011) and then reconfigure the DS1-DS5 as 2 raid10 arrays then move the VM hard disks to those 2 datastores. Can i perform a cold VM migration using vcenter without running the risk that the harddisks will be overwritten during the move?  if i need to manually create folders called REDHAT, SQL, LOGS, APPS on DS6 and then move the VM hardfdisks into their respective folders can i still use VM cold migration in vcenter or should i use veeam migration or vm converter?.  Above is the VM configs showing the 4 vmdk files on the different local datastores.  Thanks for any help.


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