Hello.
I'm a beginner with VMWare.
I have an old 2.5 Host that has 4 VMs on it that I want to transfer to a new reliable 5.0 Host.
I used vCenter Converter Standalone to transfer two of the VMs and everything went well.
(although I was unable to RDP to them until I changed the IP back to the original. It had picked up a DHCP IP#. I got a warning about have the same IP# on the virtual that which I thought was odd but it worked. Am I going to have a problem with that someday?)
The two other VMs though don't use local storage on the 2.5 Host at all.
Their datastores are all SAN volumes.
One has 3 volumes totalling 1.5 TB and the other uses about the same.
How do I transfer these two VMs to a different Host?
Just do the same a I did on the other two?
They are production servers and I want to be sure.
Anyone know the expected downtime for 1.5TB?
I only have about a 3 hour downtime window.
I'm thinking that where no data is actually changing location that move might be very fast.
I've tried looking this up but haven't had any luck.
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks.
I'm a beginner with VMWare.
I have an old 2.5 Host that has 4 VMs on it that I want to transfer to a new reliable 5.0 Host.
I used vCenter Converter Standalone to transfer two of the VMs and everything went well.
(although I was unable to RDP to them until I changed the IP back to the original. It had picked up a DHCP IP#. I got a warning about have the same IP# on the virtual that which I thought was odd but it worked. Am I going to have a problem with that someday?)
The two other VMs though don't use local storage on the 2.5 Host at all.
Their datastores are all SAN volumes.
One has 3 volumes totalling 1.5 TB and the other uses about the same.
How do I transfer these two VMs to a different Host?
Just do the same a I did on the other two?
They are production servers and I want to be sure.
Anyone know the expected downtime for 1.5TB?
I only have about a 3 hour downtime window.
I'm thinking that where no data is actually changing location that move might be very fast.
I've tried looking this up but haven't had any luck.
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks.