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atdude
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Netware 6.5 ESX 2.5 to 3.0.1

Hello; I just arrived onsite today to install ESX 3.0.1 and to convert 5 existing VMs running on ESX 2.5 to the new ESX 3.0.1 servers.

I'll be installing VirtualCenter (2.x) to manage the new ESX 3.0.1 hosts.

The bad news is, I just discovered that:

1) Two of the VMs running on ESX 2.5 are Novell Netware 6.5

2) One of the above VMs is 500 GB

I understand that performing a physical-to-virtual conversion of Netware servers is not supported (I'm not even sure of it is "doable" with VMware Converter).

Does anyone know if it is possible to use VMware converter to import/convert Netware 6.5 virtual machines running on ESX 2.5 to ESX 3.0.1???

If it is in fact possible, does anyone have any experience with converting Netware VMs 500 GB in size?

Thanks.

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atdude
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Clarification -

I suppose what I am really wondering is -

1) If using VMware converter will work, would it still be quicker to simply add the ESX 2.5 server to the 2.x VirtualCenter server, clone the existing Netware 6.5 server (currently running on ESX 2.5), then upgrade the virtual hardware/VMtools on the newly-created clone?

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