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Hey Andrew,<br />
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Thank you very much for the detailed response.<br />
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I think using Carbonite Move is going to be our best option in this situation.<br />
<br />
Thanks.<br />
<br />
Sean
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Hey Andrew,

Thank you very much for the detailed response.

I think using Carbonite Move is going to be our best option in this situation.

Thanks.

Sean

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If you have the budget, it is the BEST OPTION!
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If you have the budget, it is the BEST OPTION!

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We have a 3.4TB VM (file server) that we will be moving from an ESXi 5.5 host to ESXi 6.0 host. &nbsp;For our smaller VM's I have used the VMWare Converter and it has worked well, although I figure it would be extremely time consuming for a 3.4TB virtual machine.<br />
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I've considered the options below. &nbsp;Please let me know what you think would be the best way to proceed:<br />
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1. &nbsp;Veeam QuickMigration.<br />
2. &nbsp;Copy VMDK/VMX files from datastore on the old host to the datastore on the new host and adding it to inventory.<br />
3. &nbsp;Carbonite Douletake<br />
4. &nbsp;Restoring from a StorageCraft backup<br />
5. &nbsp;VMWare Converter<br />
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Any input is greatly appreciated.<br />
<br />
Thank you.
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We have a 3.4TB VM (file server) that we will be moving from an ESXi 5.5 host to ESXi 6.0 host.  For our smaller VM's I have used the VMWare Converter and it has worked well, although I figure it would be extremely time consuming for a 3.4TB virtual machine.

I've considered the options below.  Please let me know what you think would be the best way to proceed:

1.  Veeam QuickMigration.
2.  Copy VMDK/VMX files from datastore on the old host to the datastore on the new host and adding it to inventory.
3.  Carbonite Douletake
4.  Restoring from a StorageCraft backup
5.  VMWare Converter

Any input is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Moving 3.4TB VM w/o vMotion

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Virtualization

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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.