HI ALL. I ahve a project coming up to upgrade my current ESX 3.5 environment to vSphere 5. both environments will be up at the same time ( new hardware etc). If possible i cant ahve any down t...
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HI ALL. I ahve a project coming up to upgrade my current ESX 3.5 environment to vSphere 5. both environments will be up at the same time ( new hardware etc). If possible i cant ahve any down time. Current Environment: 2 ESX 3,5 Hosts Fiber Channel Storage, EMC CX4-120 about 25 VM's (including Exchange 2003, DC's and 3 SQL servers) New Environment 2 ESXi5 hosts vSphere 5 Enterprise License iSCSI Storage, EMX VNX backup with Datadomain and Networker. As i mentioned before, the new environment will be built along side the old one, so i need to HOT migrate the guests over. Whats the best way to do this? can i add the old hosts to the iSCSI network and vStorage Motion (is it even possible on 3.5, also should i be concerned about moving Exchange 2003 and SQL like this) is my only alternative p2v. if i am P2Ving should i do a cold migration of exchange and the SQl servers. if possible i would like to uitilise VMFS5 and the unified 1 mb block size. I am also planning on using the vCenter Virtual appliace. whats the down side to using this with 2 hosts for a SMB. thanks in advance!!!