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Lancem631,<br />
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I've changed the grade from a B to an A. In the future, if you want to award a grade lower than an A, you must first respond to the Experts who have given you suggestions and give them an opportunity to provide you with additional help. <br />
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SouthMod<br />
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Lancem631,

I've changed the grade from a B to an A. In the future, if you want to award a grade lower than an A, you must first respond to the Experts who have given you suggestions and give them an opportunity to provide you with additional help.

SouthMod
Community Support Moderator

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We currently have vCenter Server 6.0 running on an SSD attached to our lab VMware 6.0 Host. &nbsp; We are now ready to transition over to one of our production hosts however all the current production hosts are still running vsphere 5.5.<br />
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Question: &nbsp;can we simply physically move the SSD onto one of the production servers (different hardware)<br />
Question: &nbsp;can we end up running vCenter 6.0 on a 5.5 host?
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We currently have vCenter Server 6.0 running on an SSD attached to our lab VMware 6.0 Host.   We are now ready to transition over to one of our production hosts however all the current production hosts are still running vsphere 5.5.

Question:  can we simply physically move the SSD onto one of the production servers (different hardware)
Question:  can we end up running vCenter 6.0 on a 5.5 host?

VMWARE:  RUNNING VCENTER 6.0 ON A 5.5 HOST

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

Servers are computing devices that are similar to desktop computers in that they have the same basic components, but are significantly different in size, configuration and purpose. Servers are usually accessed over a network, and many run unattended, without a computer monitor, input device, audio hardware or USB interfaces. Many servers do not have a graphical user interface (GUI), and are configured and managed remotely. Servers typically include hardware redundancy such as dual power supplies, RAID disk systems, and ECC memory, along with extensive pre-boot memory testing and verification. Critical components might be hot swappable, and to guard against overheating, servers might have more powerful fans or use water cooling.

Server Hardware

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.