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Do you have vCenter Server, are you Licensed for Storage vMotion?<br />
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Connect your hosts to the same shared storage? (SAN).<br />
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othwerwise, see my EE Articles and use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_10718.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: &quot;Live Migrate&quot; VMware Virtual Machines between ESX/ESXi hosts and/or datastores for FREE without licenses for vMotion or Storage vMotion</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11489.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: &nbsp;Synchronize changes when completing a P2V or V2V with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11449.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: &nbsp;P2V, V2V for FREE - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1</a>
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Do you have vCenter Server, are you Licensed for Storage vMotion?

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 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_10718.html]

HOW TO:  Synchronize changes when completing a P2V or V2V with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11489.html]

HOW TO:  P2V, V2V for FREE - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11449.html]

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Hi hanccocka,<br />
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Yes, we have vCenter Server with vMotion, and yes we have a SAN for shared storage.
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Hi hanccocka,

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.
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Hello,<br />
<br />
We currently have 3 VMware Hosts. We are replacing them with 3 new Hosts with better hardware.<br />
<br />
Question:<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Can you provide some links to step-by-step guides if they exist? I wasn't able to find something simple yet.<br />
<br />
Thank you.
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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.

Moving VMs to new Hosts

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.