Migration of VM

[hbhungra]

Hi,

Please let us know if we can migrate the VM's from VCenter 6.0 to VCenter 6.5 through VConverter with same mac address.

Regards,

Hakim

[pwilk]

Yes, that's possible. Even if you somehow change your MAC address during the conversion, you can change it later on in vCenter itself.

[HarishV]

MAC is assigned to the NIC.

When you do a vMotion the MAC is migrated, but when you use a VMware converter, it creates a new VM and MAC.

So you cannot migrate but manually change the MAC address after the new VM is created using VMware converter.

Regards,

Harish Venkatachalam

[GPVenkatesh]

Hi -

If you vCenters are 6.0U3 & 6.5 and the licensing available is above enterprise plus, you may try using vSphere replication solution for smooth VM migration across vCenter with no MAC change.

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Thank you.

[RAJ_RAJ]

Hi ,

vMotion of the virtual machine keeps the MAC address . You can Follow any of the below option 

Remove the Host from vCenter 6.0 and Add to vCenter 6.5  then do migration of VM , it will have the same MAC address .

If it is in shared storage ,Map the storage to ESXi on the vCenter 6.5 , unregister the VM VC-6 and register to VC6.5  , but you need downtime ( Power off the VM ).

Using VMware converter and move the virtual machine , then change the mac address manually

You Can Use any Replication - vSphere Replication  ,  Storage Replication , any other replication Software which is compatible with VMware

Export and Import Virtual Machine

Note that  if any VMs are available on Target vCenter , check that same mac address is there or not before proceeding the migration