Storage upgrades are trickier to plan without an outage window, as under most circumstances they require a rebalance operation. Whenever possible, use vStorage Motion to migrate the VMs to another datastore.
Is the Horizon View installed on a Virtual SAN storage?
Virtual SAN can be utilized to do storage maintenance without an outage. Virtual SAN can migrate all the data off a host without requiring a View rebalance operation.
Is the storage deployed with redundant controllers?
If the storage is deployed with redundant controllers and we are doing a controller maintenance, we can usually perform the maintenance action without taking down the host. Please consult with your storage vendor for more details regarding the maintenance action.
Can we migrate the Horizon View environment to other storage?
We can plan a View rebalance operation to migrate the virtual desktops to other storage. The rebalance will take 15–60 minutes, depending on the environment and the disk and...