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thegabeman
Novice I
9 months ago
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VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 23307199 Customer asked to move a VM from non-replicated to a replicated LUN (synchronised replication)

Storage team supplied me with a new LUN and made sure it was on the same array so Storage VMotion would use VAAI and be quick. But it wasn’t While waiting and noticing the Storage VMotion was much sl...
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    Cody_Hosterman
    9 months ago
    That might be it though—it failed during some kind of replication not ready state
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Cody_Hosterman
Puritan
9 months ago
Hard to say. This is essentially checked by periodic attempts and then VMware marks the disk as supported or not. Potentially (for whatever reason) an attempt failed, so it reverted to software copy. Then after another check, it succeeded and enabled support