sorry to hijack you're thread, but its kinda related to moving and migrating
Is the following scenario possible?
1 Install esxi/sphere and workstation on a desktop machine with a virtual OS using 2 seperate hdd's as data stores
2 Move/Migrate that virtual OS without the data stores to another machine (machine 2)
3 remove the 2 HDDs from the desktop machine to machine 2 and reinstate the data stores