Migrate Environment

[Angelodef]

I need support, i have to migrate the production environment on new hardware (Enclosure C7000 with 5 Blade).
the current environment is composed from 3 Server Esxi 5.5 Enterprise Plus and Vcenter (Virtual Hardware) 5.5 standard edition, and datastore on Storage SAN. The new environment is composed 5 Blade with Esxi Enterprise (not Plus), and new Storage SAN,
and i was thinking to use the same Vcenter (don't have another license).
I wanted to do the migration by adding new Esxi to vCenter, present new Lun's, and then migrate the VM on the new Esxi and vCenter, after remove the old Esxi.
Unfortunately having the licenses of new Esxi "Enterprise Standard" (not Plus), I think not to do so,
because on Esxi current use of Distributed Virtual Switch, so do not know how to proceed by giving the minimal impact to applications

[rcporto]

About te migration from Distributed switch to Standard switch what you need to do is create a new Standard switch in your old hosts with at least one uplink (vmnic), migrate all virtual machine to the new Standard switch on the old hosts and once all virtual machine are on the Standard switch you can migrate them to the new hosts with the Standard switch. Note that depending of your CPU configuration, you will may not be able to migrate the virtual machine due to CPU compatibility, but you may try enable EVC in your new cluster to make possible the migration without shutdown the virtual machines.

[DFA71]

thanks for your answer, steps to do are:

installed new esxi 6 on new Server

On production environment create a new standard switch, migrate host from dvS in new standard switch

add new host esxi in vCenter (verify EVC), migrate VM from Old Host to new Host esxi

correct?

Thanls