Support for VM migration

This section informs you about what to expect when virtual machines migrate within a vSphere environment, including migration between ESXi hosts that are part of a vSphere cluster.

vMotion

vMotion moves a virtual machine's state and configuration to another host while the machine's disks remain in the same location on shared storage.

• vMotion of Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) is not supported and is disabled.
• vMotion of a virtual machine is disabled during a backup. Backups will continue to run after the migration is completed.

Storage vMotion

Storage vMotion moves virtual machine disks from one datastore to another.

• Storage vMotion of Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) is not supported and is disabled.
• Storage vMotion of a virtual machine is disabled during a backup. Backups will continue to run after the migration.