Storage Vmotion completes in zero seconds : no actual svmotion

Here was someone on the forums trying to storage vmotion out their vms and it would not do anything but it would complete.
The user was storage vmotioning the virtual machine to the same datastore.
He was attempting to move it from thick to thin.
When ever you svmotion a vm to the same datastore it will complete because the vm is already there, even if you attempt to change the disk type.

If you look at the image, you can see the svmotion tasks finishes immediately.
That would be nice but not possible.


If you need to change the vmdk type of file from thin to thick, thick to thin, etc you have to use a different datastore.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/2107202


http://sparrowangelstechnology.blogspot.com/2012/07/convert-thick-disk-to-thin-using.html
If you want to convert the disk from thick to thin on the same datastore use the link above