What is Storage Vmotion or SVmotion ?

What is Storage Vmotion

Storage Vmotion (sVmotion ) its a  migration of running virtual machine's storage from one datastore to another with zero downtime and virtual machine will remain in the same host.

Benefits from Storage vmotion

1. Balance the datastoe utilization.
2. Perform SAN maintenance by moving storage from one SAN to another or swap out
3. Move local ESXi storage to SAN storage

Requirement for Storage vmotion

1. Licencing- required standard, enterprise or enterprise plus only.
2. All storage need to be accessible to the ESXi server where the VM is running
3. This works- local to SAN or SAN to local
4. Don't works- local of ESXi-1 to local of ESXi-2 (Exception is shared nothing live migration)
5. Moving of powered on VM with snapshot is not supported till version-4
6. Note that to use the option to change both host and datastore, the VM must be powered off till version-5
7. Moving a large VMDK can take a long time, depending on your network connection.