Best way to move VMs between two clusters: HP and UCS

[gerf0727]

Hello,

We have to move VMs from the UCSChassis cluster: 6 ESXi hosts into an HPChassis Cluster.

I am just wondering how to do it with the minimum downtime.

Thanks for your help,

[weinstein5 · Accepted solution]

If you have shared storage - expose the storahe where the vms are stored to both sets of hosts - and is the hosts are ocmpatible you can vmotion - or at minimum - shut down the VM remover is from the UCS environment and add it to the HP environment -

If you cannot share the storage you - you can use VMwate Standalone Converter and V2V the VMs -

[gerf0727]

I do have shared storage.

Hpcluster with HP hardware and UCS with cisco hw so i do not think vmotion will work.

So, i guess the only way is to shutdown all vm's, and vmotion them to the new HP hosts, right ?

[weinstein5]

Yes - to minimize impact I would not do them all at once - but stagger them particularly if they are redundant systems -

[vHaridas]

Just shutdwon vm and migrate to hp host and power it on if shared storage is available at both cluster hosts..

[Sundararajan]

Hi Weinstein5,

If both are in same processor family then we can proceed the vMotion or needs to consider about EVC ? . Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks

Sundar