Read some of the other discussions on this topic .... I have a slight twist... can someone offer guidelines\options on the best way to relocate a very large VM
from a NetApp array to a EMC VNX array. The VM has 4 disks - 2 of which are 1+ TB each and currently runs on a ESX 4.0 host. We want to move the
datastores and guest to a new ESXi 5 host. Can be 2 steps if necessary. Taking any downtime will be difficult and must be kept to a minimum. I've used vMotion
and Converter. A vMotion test generated a block size complaint. Converter is very slow and often times out. If the guest can be powered off I can use the datastore
browser to move the .VMDKs, then unregister\re-register the .vmx. Slow maybe, but should be better than Converter. Unfortunately the 4 disks are all separate datastores
and therefore do not reside with the dtatastore containing the .vmx. Can I still do this by modifying the .vmx to point to the new disk locations ?