Well, firstly if anybody is doing this.

If so, I'd like to know how their experience has been, what were the pitfalls and what advice they were giving someone who was doing it for the first time. I'm working on spinning up a new storage system and create a new Lab Manager install with new ESX hosts, eventually using it with our existing system. The use of VMs is from our automated testing system, which would hide the details of our dual-lm system from end users. As long as they clicked on LiveLinks they might not even be aware of it. The idea is, we could also still be productive in lieu of a major system outage (a LM instance, our a storage system). We could upgrade half at a time while running on the other half.