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You will be able to leave the VM array in place. If you are running VC you can navigate to the datastore, find the VM and add it to the inventory. If you are not running VC you can use the convertor to add the machines back to the server.
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You will be able to leave the VM array in place. If you are running VC you can navigate to the datastore, find the VM and add it to the inventory. If you are not running VC you can use the convertor to add the machines back to the server.

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I'm running VC as a Vm. So, if I rebuild ESX and then rebuild VC, I can just re-add the VMs by browsing to the datastore from the VI gui?<br />
I may use the converter before I rebuild VC. Is converter just a plugin?<br />
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Thx<br />

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I'm running VC as a Vm. So, if I rebuild ESX and then rebuild VC, I can just re-add the VMs by browsing to the datastore from the VI gui?
I may use the converter before I rebuild VC. Is converter just a plugin?
 
Thx


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Experts,<br />
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I have an ESX 3.5 lab server with 2 X RAID 5 arrays. One array contains the ESX code, and the other array contains all the VMs. I want to re-install ESX on the &nbsp;original array. When re-installing will I be able to leave the VM array intact? If so, how difficult will it be to reimport the VMs into the rebuilt ESX server?
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Experts,

I have an ESX 3.5 lab server with 2 X RAID 5 arrays. One array contains the ESX code, and the other array contains all the VMs. I want to re-install ESX on the  original array. When re-installing will I be able to leave the VM array intact? If so, how difficult will it be to reimport the VMs into the rebuilt ESX server?

Importing VMs into rebuilt ESX server

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.