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How to Migrate my VMware to my ESXI 5.5

Hello Experts,

I currently have a my VMs hosted with a company called www.baremetalcloud.com. They're a good company, however I no longer need my VM hosted in the cloud. However, I would still like to access the VMs locally on my PC. Therefore, I would like to build my own ESXi and move all of my VM's to my ESXi server.

Currently, my VM's look like the image below:. Can someone let me know how I go about migrating the images? Is it only achieved by taking snapshots of the VM's or can I move everything to a new ESXi in one shot?


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Carlton
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You have a number of options....some will require the power down of VMs, some which can be done hot and powered up.

Time taken is going to depend on how fast your link, e.g. WAN link

 You can Export and Import..., VMware Converter, Veeam, Double Take MOVE, Just download using Datastore browser...

see my EE Articles

HOW TO: Backup (Export) and Restore (Import) virtual machines to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 for FREE

HOW TO: "Live Migrate" VMware Virtual Machines between ESX/ESXi hosts and/or datastores for FREE without licenses for vMotion or Storage vMotion

HOW TO:  P2V, V2V for FREE - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.1

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

Looks like you have some really good resources.

I will be checking them out.

Cheers

Carlton
They'll all work, depending on how much access, and how much speed you have to and from the Cloud.

Snapsnots are not backups, but you can Export/Copy/Move/Migrate each VM to another ESXi Host, VMware Workstation VM, for use with VMware Workstation/Player.
Hello Andrew,

You're guides are working a treat.

So, I'm exported the VM's. Now, I would like to run the VM's on an ESXI 5.5.

Is it possible to install ESXi 5.5 on a Windows machine? If not, can you let me know how / where to run the newly exported VM's ?

Cheers
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