Migrating guests from one host to another

[Subatomic]

We have several ESX 3.0.1 hosts, a ESX 3.5 host, and VC 2.5. No SAN.

I am looking to migrate various guest OSes (Window/Linux) from the ESX 3.0.1 hosts to 3.5

I've looked at which didnt have this as a scenario.

What is the best approach to migrating the guests. I'm quite new to ESX, so as much detail would be greatly appreciated.

[piercelynch · Accepted solution]

Long as you are using Virtual Center, and the hosts are in the same datacentre and on the same subnet network - you can use VC to migrate the guests, by simply right click on the guest and using migrate wizard.

Or, if you don't use VC - can just move the guest VM files to the other host and recreate the VM using the configuration and data files there

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