Changing host VM and datastore

[sandroalves]

Hi,

in my tests when I select a linked VM in a vCenter, when it is moved to other hosts the backup routine continues to function normally.

However, when I moved the datastore VM I noticed that it failed, so it was necessary to remove it from the JOB and add it again.

I also noticed that duplicated the VM of the repository (Disk).

Is that so?

Thanks.

[Egor Yakovlev]

If you are moving within vCenter, no matter compute or storage, virtual machine MoRefID shall not change.
If you are moving between standalone ESXi hosts, MoRefID change is expected - VM is treated as new.
Just changing the storage(with no compute change) shall not trigger MoRefID change.
Check out this post on different scenarios when MoRefID change happens - if VMware thinks its a new VM, Veeam will have to treat it as a new VM as well.

/Cheers!