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Deeshey
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migrate VCENTER VM

HI all.

Im in the final stage of the migration process from esx 2.5 servers to esx 3.0.1 servers

The question is...How i do the migration of the Virtual center Virtual machine? If i do a Dmotion i cant do the Upgrade of Virtual Hardware because the VCenter VM will be Powered off.....

I cant do Cold migration because if i turn off the VM i cant access to the vcenter Smiley Sad

What is the solution ?

Thanks

dd

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oreeh
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I cant do Cold migration because if i turn off the VM i cant access to the vcenter

you can connect the ESX host directly using the VI client and start the VC VM this way

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oreeh
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I cant do Cold migration because if i turn off the VM i cant access to the vcenter

you can connect the ESX host directly using the VI client and start the VC VM this way

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Deeshey
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but using VIclient i cant UPGRADE VIRTUAL HARDWARE right?

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oreeh
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you can upgrade the virtual HW using the VI client connected to the ESX

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cheeko
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While i did not test that, I'd still say that this works.

Otherwise all the people without VC wouldn't be able to upgrade ...

Deeshey
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you are 100% sure ? ok. i test it.

thanks

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oreeh
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Yes I'm sure for the reason cheeko mentioned and because I've done this myself when upgrading a standalone ESX 2.5 server to ESX 3

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Deeshey
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If i can do that from VI client...i can too from CLI ? with which command? because vm-upgrade command is only in vcenter.

thanks

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oreeh
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Don't know if a CLI version exists.

If you right click the VM in VI client there's a command "Upgrade virtual hardware".

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Deeshey
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worked fine!

thanks a lot

stv

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