Moving a Virtual Machine or Virtual Hard Disk

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Applies To: System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager

Moving a Virtual Machine

To move a virtual machine that is protected by DPM

  1. Copy the virtual machine to the new host. For instructions, see Copying, managing, and renaming virtual machines.

  2. Add the copied virtual machine to a protection group.

  3. Remove the original virtual machine from the original host. For instructions, see Removing virtual machines.

  4. Stop protection of the original virtual machine.

Moving a Virtual Hard Disk

You might want to move a virtual hard disk to store a large amount of data or improve disk performance. A virtual hard disk for a virtual machine is stored as a .vhd file. To continue protection of a virtual hard disk that is moved to a new volume, run the Modify Group Wizard for the protection group to which it belongs, and then run a consistency check.