Hi all,
Next month, I'm going to be setting up a View 4
environment on three brand new ESX servers coupled with a virtual
Componser/vCenter. My current ESX servers running 3.1 will be torn down
and given to the software guys (poor servers!). In my planning, most
guides seemed tailored to upgrading 3.1 in place to 4. Are there any
guides that cover having two totally seperate groups of servers and
simply migrating each pool's base image from View 3 servers to View 4
servers until the View 3.1 servers are empty?
Right now, I plan to
provision the same storage to my View 4 cluster and my View 3 cluster.
Every night, I'll delete a pool on the View 3 cluster and create it on
the View 4 cluster. According to the upgrade guide, the 3.1 Client
doesn't like the new Composer, so as long as I remove the old client and
install the new one, I should be good to go, right?
Am I missing
some amazingly obvious obstacle to a migration, or is it just too simple
to bother writing a guide for and I'm way over thinking this? :smileyshocked:
Side note: thanks for all the help over the years. :smileygrin:
Have you already seen this document?
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/view40_upgrade_guide.pdf
Andre
Your approach will depend if you have shared storage or not, you will first need to get your new ESX servers in the same Virtual Center or vsphere environment and then you can migrate your VM`s if you don't have shared storage then you will have to do this offline.
In the worst case you may have to do an export and re import, once you have moved them you will need to update VMware tools.