Migrate/Covert ESX 2.5.x VM template to ESX 3 template

[LifeGood]

I did the in-place upgrade from ESX 2.5.3 to ESX 3.0.0 im my home lab environment. And all the VMs be upgraded successfully (ofcourse after upgrade to VMFS-3 and upgrade VM virtual hardware).

But my question is how to re-use the previous VM template (vmtd) ? Is there a way to covert/migrate ESX 2.5.x template to ESX 3 teamplate ?

BTW, the VC2.0 is a fresh install. I didn't upgrade the old VC1.3 to VC2.

Thanks!

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LifeGood

[Samcer]

What about your DB?

You can find your old Templates in Administration --> legacy Templates

Hope this Helps

Sam

[admin]

Did you have local templates in VI2? Are they on local disk on the VCMS.

Then the Legacy Templates will work.

If not - you need to browse the datastore --> click on the vmtx file and add to inventory.

[LifeGood]

I'm not able to see the old Templates from legacy Templates. Remember, I did a fresh installation of VC2 (not upgrade from VC1.3)

[LifeGood]

Did you have local templates in VI2? Are they on local disk on the VCMS.[/i]

Then the Legacy Templates will work.[/i]

\--- My old templates in VMFS-3 (after inplace upgrade of ESX2.5) datastore on ESX3

If not - you need to browse the datastore --> click on the vmtx file and add to inventory.[/i]

\-- I don't know how to do it .... from VC2 ?

Thanks

[admin]

Select the summary tab of a host.

On the right you should see all the datastores that that server can see. Double click the datastore and you can browse to the templates directory.

[LifeGood]

Thanks.

I'm able to add the template to the inventory. But after I covert it to VM, I'm not able to power it on. And I lost the connection between VC2 and ESX3 server.

Any idea ?