Hello,
This is my first post, so I apologize ahead of time if it's not on the right board.
I was wondering if some fellow engineers on here could validate my methods for project I am working on.
I have the following scenario:
Customer's Existing Infrastructure:
The end goal is to move all VM's off of the ESXi 6.0 cluster to the following brand new cluster:
The lowest VM version I have is 8, which, according to the compatibility matrix, is fine for moving to ESXi 7.
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2007240
My thought was to do the following:
I know there may be other ways to accomplish the end goal (like upgrading each old ESXi host individually), but I'm specifically interested in knowing if this approach will work.
From what I understand, I know people have reported issues vMotioning from vCenter 6.0 to vCenter 7.0. due to how vCenter manages certain aspects of ESXi/vSphere.
Would that matter in this scenario?
I appreciate anyone's help on validating this approach and/or offering a simpler way.
IMO your approach should work.
Since vMotion isn't an option anyway (because vCenter Server only supports ESXi 6.5 and later), that's basically one of the few ways to do the migration.
André
IMO your approach should work.
Since vMotion isn't an option anyway (because vCenter Server only supports ESXi 6.5 and later), that's basically one of the few ways to do the migration.
André
Thank you, Andre.
I appreciate your feedback.