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Is it possible to replicate VMs from 5.1 to 6.0?&quot; using vSphere Replication Manager? If &quot;Yes&quot;, we are happy to do that.
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Is it possible to replicate VMs from 5.1 to 6.0?" using vSphere Replication Manager? If "Yes", we are happy to do that.

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I'm afraid not.<br />
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You could look at different software to do this e.g. Zerto or Vision Solutions Double Take MOVE.
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I'm afraid not.

You could look at different software to do this e.g. Zerto or Vision Solutions Double Take MOVE.

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We are running vCenter 5.1 on <b>Site-1</b>. We've also built a new vCenter 5.1 in a different geographical location (<b>Site-2</b>) with new ESXi servers. <b>Our primary target is to discontinue Site-1 and move all existing VMs in Site-2</b>. We don't want Storage Replication and SRM to do this.<br />
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As vSphere Replication Manager replicates VMs over the IP, we want vSphere Replication Manager Appliance 5.x to replicate VMs from source (Site-1) to target (Site-2) and then stop replication once all VMs appear in target location (Site-2). &nbsp;We will then decommission Site-1 vCenter.<br />
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Can this be possible? If we stop replication and decommission the primary site will there be any problem with VMs replicated to Site-2?
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We are running vCenter 5.1 on Site-1. We've also built a new vCenter 5.1 in a different geographical location (Site-2) with new ESXi servers. Our primary target is to discontinue Site-1 and move all existing VMs in Site-2. We don't want Storage Replication and SRM to do this.

As vSphere Replication Manager replicates VMs over the IP, we want vSphere Replication Manager Appliance 5.x to replicate VMs from source (Site-1) to target (Site-2) and then stop replication once all VMs appear in target location (Site-2).  We will then decommission Site-1 vCenter.

Can this be possible? If we stop replication and decommission the primary site will there be any problem with VMs replicated to Site-2?

vSphere Replication Manager - VM migration

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.