Migration of virtual machines between two hosts

Hi all,
I have SCVMM 2012 R2 installed & configured. I have added two host server. My target is to migrate all VM's from first server to the second one.
There is a storage server which is added on both the host under as ISCSI array option :-
but i am not getting disk in Disk management. do i have to do something else.
Please help.
Thanks,
Pranay.

Hi Pranay,
>>There is a storage server which is added on both the host under as ISCSI array option :-
Do you mean the two hosts are connecting same ISCSI target of the storage server ?
Based on my understanding , shared storage is used for cluster .
Could you please tell us where the VMs is stored ?
Best Regards,
Elton Ji
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Manufacturer Dell Inc.
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SMBios Major Version 2
SMBios Minor Version 5
Current Language en|US|iso8859-1
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