The following high-level procedure will help you host all your VM workload on VMFS 6 volumes:
- Make an inventory of all your datastores and their current utilization.
- Now, depending on the amount of free space available in the storage array, you can choose to create LUNs of the same size as the existing datastores or create a set of larger LUNs to temporarily migrate the VMs onto them.
- Once the datastores have been created, use storage vMotion to migrate the VM data on the datastores.
- If you have created larger temporary LUNs, then select one or more datastores in batches, migrate VM data off of them, delete the empty VMFS 5 volumes, create a new VMFS 6 volume on their LUNs and migrate the VMs back to them.