Hi,
I wanted to give my scneraio here for some advice. I currently have a vSphere 4.1 Ent. setup with 2 hosts and a SAN. Everything has been working great. We are wanting to upgrade to vSphere Esxi 5.0 soon. I have actually already upgraded vCenter to 5.0 along with all modules. My current hosts are 4 years old so I am going to replace them with 2 new hosts with esxi 5.0. One of my questions is...at this this point can I simply replace my 2 old hosts and replace with the new ones? I should already be good with my licensing but my concern is the networking side of things. If I simply replace can I just go into vCenter and reconfigure the networking for these hosts or do I need to pre-configure the host before implementation? My 2 new hosts will have 8 NICs and my current ones only have 6 NICs. I thought maybe I could team my production network with 4 NICs versus 2. Any thoughts on this is appreciated. We are a small biz so I want to keep as simple as possible. Just not sure how vCenter will recognize two replaced hosts...