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velissj1
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migrating of vm's across vcenters

I would like to migrate a number of Virtual Machines from one vsphere 5.5 environment to another seperate vsphere 6.5 environment.
Both environments have their own vcenter

 

Can I use ovftool to perform these migrations.

 

ovftool vi://........   vi://........

 

Thanks in Advance

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scott28tt
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Any storage you can share between the different hosts?

Backup and restore?

Use SCP to copy the VM files?

Run vCenter Converter Standlone?

Lots of options…

 


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