VM Migration

[virtualhelp]

Hello,

I currently have a vCenter and ESxi in version 5.1.

I just deployed a new vCenter and ESxi in versions 7.0

One option would be to export those VMs to ova and then import them to the new vcenter.

But I would like to know if it is feasible to add those vCenter 5.1 nodes to the new vCenter 7.0 cluster and then with a vmotion move those VMs to the new ESxi 7.0

[basteku73]

Hi, 

It is not possible to connect esxi5.1 to vCenter 7.0. vCenter 7.0 supports esxi 6.5 and higher. 

You can try to mount datastore to esxi.7.0 (if u have one in vCenter7.0) and remove vm from vSphere 5.1 and register this in vsphere 7.0 (vCenter 7.0) browsing datastore. 

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Sebastian

[scott28tt]

According to this tool: https://interopmatrix.vmware.com/Interoperability

vCenter Server 7.x cannot manage an ESXi 5.1 host.

Can you give the new hosts access to the old datastores, even temporarily?