Migrating a vDisk to Another Storage Container

Migrating a vDisk to Another Storage Container shows how to migrate a vDisk from a default storage container to a custom storage container.

First and foremost, when a VM is created on a Nutanix CE cluster, we must create a vDisk and assign it to a VM during its creation process. By default, the storage container used by the vDisk is the “default-container”:

Our test VM “Windows01′ was installed using the default storage container, as we can see in the following figure:

How can I change the Storage Container in a running VM?

1- Select and access by SSH one Controller VM (CVM);

2- Execute the following command to change the VM’s storage container:

acli vm.update_container VM_NAME container=CONTAINER_NAME wait=false

Replace “VM_NAME” with your VM name and “CONTAINER_NAME” with your storage container name.

Example:

acli vm.update_container Windows01 container=VMsWindows wait=false

After executing the command, a task will be created, and we can see it through the Prism Element interface:

After some moments, the task will be finished, and we can see the new Storage Container:

That’s it 🙂

To get more details, access the official documentation:

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=AHV-Admin-Guide-v6_8:ahv-vdisk-migrate-t.html