Dear all,
first of all I do not have any RAID on my home server and I plan to add it later when I will switch to some other solution (matter of years).
One of the non-system hard drives (datastore2) is showing symptomps of a faulty drive. I have also made a few tests and confirmed that (Hirenboot, Linux commands).
I plan to do the following:
a) connect another 10 Tb WD Red NAS hard drive to my ESXi 6.7 server (its already connected to my MSI H61MA-E35 (B3) MB, but ESXi refuses to detect it - that is however another problem I need to solve first)
b) copy the datastore2 content to datastore 3 (the new drive) using the Datastore browser option
c) rename datastore2 to some other name (e.g. goodbye-my-old-hard-drive)
d) rename datastore3 (new hard drive) to datastore2
e) disconnect old failing hard drive
I do not see any vMotion options in my ESXi 6.7 web interface (vSphere) because I do not have any Virtual Center installed.
I therefore believe that I will have to remove the VM from my invetory and re-add it once moved to make ESXi know that it was moved on another hard drive.
Potential important information is that there is another datastorage which is mounted to the same VM as the one on datastore2 and I would like to keep it that way as it contains some data. Does this represent a problem? I think that I will have to re-add it as well once the VM will be removed from the inventory, right?
Thank you.