A virtual machine can be easily and non-disruptively be migrated from NFS or VMFS to Virtual Volumes via a Storage vMotion operation. This will convert virtual disks into the separate volumes on the array.
- Click on a virtual machine in the vSphere Web Client and choose Migrate.
- Then choose “Change storage only”.
- Choose a VM storage policy if desired, or just choose a vVol datastore.
- If you chose a policy, VMware will filter out non-compatible datastores. If the policy has replication or snapshot capabilities, you will need to choose a replication group (which is a FlashArray protection group).
- Click Next then finish to have VMware convert the VM online to vVols and apply any policy configurations if selected