Move to new SAS

[dfgdgdgd]

Hi At all,

i'm using esxi 6.5 on ibm x3650 m4,

i have 3 sas 146gb and now i will replace all with only 1 SAS 900gb Seagate, i'm  new so i don't know the best way to move all ESXI to new SAS (remove 3 sas 146gb and add 1 sas 900gb), i will run raid but later,

Thanks

[vembutech1]

Is this single ESXi host and not managed by vCenter ?. Does hypervisor installed on a separate drive ?. Put the new disk as a separate datastore, shutdown the VM. move to new datastore.

Then delete the datastore, and remove the disks from the server.

[dfgdgdgd]

First thanks your quick reply.

-Yes it not managed by vCenter,

- Does hypervisor installed on a separate drive ? sorry i don't know what you mean, my new sas is new i mean i just buy it.

any command or any notice to prevent loss data ? or at the moment with 3 sas,i add my new sas and it will show a new datastore

Thanks

[vembutech1]

Usually for a single ESXi server, I would prefer to install the Hypervisor OS on a separate flash drive ( USB pen drive ), and allocate all SAS space into datastore.

So you are replacing all the 3 drives by 1 drive. I assume you already has 3 datastore. Create a new data store on the new drive. After shutdown the respective vm, you can move the vmdk directory contents into new datastore, by right clicking the vm.

[dfgdgdgd]

NO, now it still 1 datastore with 400 GB.

so now i will add my new sas, create new datastore and move all vm to it, next step i will install esxi on usb, use it and just register my vm right ?

[vembutech1]

Yes, correct. Has to do add inventory for all vms.

[dfgdgdgd]

Thanks Sir.

[vembutech1]

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