Moving a virtual machine to a new disk

[adam23450]

I bought a new disk for my NAS and wanted to attach my virtual machines without data protection to it. How can I do this?

 

[adam23450]

*without losing data

 

[sretalla]

Assuming you have used ZVOLs for your VM HD files, here's the theory...

Create a pool on the new disk
Create the dataset structure you want to house the VM disks
Stop the VMs
Use zfs send | zfs recv (plenty of examples around the forum for that) to copy the zvols to the new location
Update the HDD devices in the VM config to the new locations
Start the VMs
(optional) destroy the original zvols with zfs destroy once you're happy that it works.