Recently I had to clean up a datastore after some failed Veeam snapshots had filled up the datastore.
I used the Move-button of Datastorebrowser to move a file from /vmfs/volumes/datastore/dir1 to /vmfs/volumes/datastore/dir2 - as this was inside one datastore I expected that the move would be done in a couple of seconds for a 150 Gb vmdk - nstead it took about half an hour and I was quite surprised to see that the file was copied instead of moved.
Anybody else seen this behaviour ?
The datastore was a thin provisioned LUN provided by Datacore - ESXi-version was 5.1