Moving virtual machines from one control station to another

[MBordelon]

We currently have and ESX server running version 4. We are going to be getting 3-4 physical servers which are using ESX version 3.5 each housing 15 or so virtual servers. The control station that controls these new virtual machines is not going to be moved along with the rest of the equipment. We will need to add these servers to our current vSphere 4 environment. Is this possible? If so, what are the steps needed to accomplish this? Is there documentation that someone can point me to which would explain how to accomplish this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[weinstein5]

When you say control station are you referring to virtual center? Do have vCenter in your vSphere environment? If you do have a vCenter 4 server you can manage these ESX 3.5 hosts with that vCenter server with out a problem -

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[golddiggie]

As long as he can point the vCenter Server to the license server used for the VI3 (ESX 3.5) environment. At least until all the older hosts have been updated/upgraded to run ESX 4...

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[MBordelon]

Attached is a screen shot of what I see when i click help,about. I say control station because that's what the people we are getting the additional servers called it.The correct name is probably Vcenter or Vsphere. Once these servers are connected to our network, how would I add them to our existing Vcenter?

[esexon]

Hey,

if you have vcenter installed you need to right click your datacenter and click Add host to bring your other hosts into the VCenter.

Evan

[MBordelon]

When I right click on the data center, add host is greyed out. Is there a service or something else that needs to be stopped in order to add hosts?

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

you are in the Hosts and Clusters View? This is where you need to be to "add host".

[MBordelon]

Thanks for all of the helpe here. After reading the replies here I was able to create VM's on both hosts and move the hosts from one data center to another with no problems. Of course this was all done in a test lab. The real fun comes Memorial Day weekend.