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Moving VMs to new Hosts
Hello,
We currently have 3 VMware Hosts. We are replacing them with 3 new Hosts with better hardware.
Question:
What is the correct way to move our VMs over to the new hosts? Is there a way to do it without bringing down our entire environment? We would like some critical servers to continue running.
Can you provide some links to step-by-step guides if they exist? I wasn't able to find something simple yet.
Thank you.
We currently have 3 VMware Hosts. We are replacing them with 3 new Hosts with better hardware.
Question:
What is the correct way to move our VMs over to the new hosts? Is there a way to do it without bringing down our entire environment? We would like some critical servers to continue running.
Can you provide some links to step-by-step guides if they exist? I wasn't able to find something simple yet.
Thank you.
ASKER
Hi hanccocka,
Yes, we have vCenter Server with vMotion, and yes we have a SAN for shared storage.
Yes, we have vCenter Server with vMotion, and yes we have a SAN for shared storage.
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Thank you for the help, this worked.
Connect your hosts to the same shared storage? (SAN).
othwerwise, see my EE Articles and use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1
HOW TO: "Live Migrate" VMware Virtual Machines between ESX/ESXi hosts and/or datastores for FREE without licenses for vMotion or Storage vMotion
HOW TO: Synchronize changes when completing a P2V or V2V with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1
HOW TO: P2V, V2V for FREE - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1