Source system:
Dell Equallogic PS Series SAN
ESXi 5 623860 (IBM Bladecenter)
Guests: a mix of VMDK and RDMs(Physical mode), VMFS3/5 (100% Thick provisioned)
Target system:
NetApp FAS3220
ESXi 5.5 1331820 (Cisco UCS)
NFS Datastores/VMDK (NO RDMS) (Thin provisioned)
I'm trying to wrap my head around the migration process here. I have a few guests on the source system that are Windows File servers with fairly large RDMs attached to them (1+TBs each). Every disk on the source side outside of the system disks are pRDMs (iSCSI) attached to the Dell.
With the new system, my goal is to have them migrated over on to NFS datastores with VMDKs only. Volume level (datastore) thick provisoned, VMDK think provisioned. I can see where its not possible to storage vMotion pRDMs to VMDKs on NFS. If this is the case, what are my best options here? V2V with disk conversion during that process?
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
