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best way/practice to move vm from host to another

Hello,

We have esxi 6 essentials on 2 host (old one and the new one) and using vcenter i see i can migrate vm's which is great - but the vm's have to be turned off. Vreeam has the quick migration which works live, but testing it shuts off the old one and turns on the new one, which i'm fine with - but is there a way to set it do it flips the switch at a certain time so it doesn't finish during business hours and turns off?The problem is our sbs2008 vm is about 3TB and moving that takes some time moving to the new host. The smaller vm's we have i can shut down and move over with out any issues or interruptions most have already been moved over to the new host.

i'm trying to avoid any or at-least minimize any downtime.  so other than those 2 options is there something  i've maybe overlooked? first time having to move over to a new host and wanna make sure i 'f it up

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Bill - i will check into that 250 isnt bad.

thanks Andrew - your article about vreeam is what made me download it and check it out. it exactly what i want, minus the auto switch flipper on the vms.
We have a article on Double Take MOVE as well!

HOW TO: Migrate physical, virtual and cloud based workloads with real-time replication to VMware vSphere (ESXi) using Double-Take MOVE

it depends HOW MUCH downtime you can afford, you can also use VMware Converter.....

HOW TO:  Synchronize changes when completing a P2V or V2V with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1

all for free, BUT I would not recommend, any of them, because you are just moving from ESXi host to Host!

You don't get professional software with no downtime for FREE.

If you are worried about downtime, and cutover, and are around to do it, look at converter....

Double Take MOVE requires a lot of setting up..... you would have done it with Veeam, VMware Converter, or Export/Import, just for a single VM!
Thanks guys!