Moving Hosts and VMs to a New Cluster

[mredwarren]

Good Evening VMware Community,

I have a bit of a dilemma. My team acquired a VMware network consisting of two ESXi Hosts (6.7) and a vCenter (6.7). After trying to patch the hosts it was found that the previous group did not set up the current Cluster with DRS, HA, or vSAN.

I am trying to find out how difficult is it to create a new cluster and move the hosts into that new cluster so we can use the tools to make our job easier.

Also, in the current cluster a vSAN of 2.86TB is shared and has some of the VMs stored in it.

Finally, if I wanted to avoid all of this, can I simply enable DRS and HA on the already existing cluster or would I have to create a new Cluster? I am trying to do the simplest way to resolve the issue.

Any light on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ed

[Kahonu84]

HA and DRS can be turned on/off on the fly.

[Arthos]

mredwarren,

This is the enablement sequence you can follow.

1. Enable VSAN

2. Enable HA

3. Enable DRS

You should have no issues. HA / DRS enablement is pretty easy.

[depping]

Euh, a "vSAN" is shared? What does that mean, if you have a vSAN datastore in 6.7 it usually means that vSAN is enabled on a cluster level. If that is the case, just go to the cluster and simply enable HA and DRS, no need to create a new cluster, just enable the services.