What Is VMware Storage vMotion?

VMware Storage vMotion enables the live migration of running virtual machine disk files within and across storage arrays. Building on the success of VMware vMotion a production proven technology used for the live migration of virtual machines Storage vMotion relocates virtual machine disk files from one shared storage location to another shared storage location. It achieves this with zero downtime, continuous service availability and complete transaction integrity. Storage vMotion enables organizations to perform proactive storage migrations, simplify array refreshes/retirements, improve virtual machine storage performance and free up valuable storage capacity.