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Pulta
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Moving vm to new ESXi host

Hi, I have a HP proliant with attached HP StorageWorks storage which is running ESXi 5.0 and one backup exec vm Windows Server 2008 with about 4TB of data. We plan to move this to a new HP Proliant with attached StorageWorks storage. I'm going to install esxi 5.5 and then want to move the vm and all the data across to the new storage works drive. How can I do this? I've not played around much with vmware. I'm guessing it's a manual copy of VMDK's and other files from one storage device to the other but there are no additional ports to have both StorageWorks drives plugged into the new ESXi host.

Thanks for any help.

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DavoudTeimouri
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Hi,

Do you can configure iSCSI on the storage device and assign the LUN via that to the server?

Other way is, adding SAS driver to new server and copying the VM to the local datastore of the new server.

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bggb29
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What are you licensed for , do you have vcenter ?

Are you planning on a live migration of guests ?

You can use scp from one host to the other then add the guests to the new server once the copy completes. This process will be slow depending on the size of your guests.

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Pulta
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We have vCentre and it wouldn't be a live migration. It's a backup Server only so no problem with a days downtime. 4TB worth VMDK files

SCP?

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bggb29
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The simply use migration from the vsphere web client. It will allow you to storage vmotion when both esx servers do not have shared storage.

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