vCenter, ESX3 to 4, vmware tools

[GoodMorningDave]

I have three days left on the eval of vCenter, which we bought.

I have a production vm running on 3.5 123630, which we can still see until we license vCenter.

Obviously the 3.5 needs to update to 4.0.

I have had one successful inplace upgrade, one vmware tools upgrade killed a vm, and another failed move. I am trying to plan my best way to handle this.

1. move the vm to one of the 4.0 servers. Consequences for the vm.?

2. Acronis backup of the vm and restore to a 4.0 server?

3. Clone the vm to a 4.0 server and do in place esx upgrade 3.5 to 4.0?

[weinstein5]

1. There is no problem running a VM created on an ESX 3 host on an ESX 4 host - both should be on the same vCenter 4.0 server

2. You could do that but I woul still do option 1

3. You could do this as well but like 1 both should be on the same vCenter 4 server -

Have you read this http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_upgrade_guide.pdf - it contains all you need to know about uprgrading to vSphere -

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[GoodMorningDave]

What prepatory should I do before moving the vm?

I am assuming it will not run after it's moved and it just moving back won't fix anything.

?:|

[weinstein5]

Nothing really - the vm should run on esx4 server with no changes

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On Dec 22, 2009, at 12:08 PM, "GoodMorningDave" <communities-emailer@vmware.com