Storage vMotion fails with “The migration has exceeded the maximum switchover time of 100 second(s).”

On performing a Storage vMotion task to move a VM to another datastore, the following error message was received: A general system error occurred: The migration has exceeded the maximum switchover time of 100 second(s).  ESX has preemptively failed the migration to allow the virtual machine to continue running on the source. To avoid this … More Storage vMotion fails with “The migration has exceeded the maximum switchover time of 100 second(s).”

Invoking Storage vMotion from PowerCLI

It is possible to invoke Storage vMotion tasks using PowerCLI by invoking the Move-VM cmdlet and specifying the Datastore and DiskStorageFormat (to specify a new storage format) parameters, as below: Move-VM <VM> -Datastore <Datastore> -DiskStorageFormat <Thin | Thick | EagerZeroedThick> I was looking to use the below as part of testing a new storage array, where … More Invoking Storage vMotion from PowerCLI