Migrate from storage vendor

[SiCaNR]

Hi,

My situation:

A

1. I have a current infrastructure with storage vendor A

2. Running VM's on storage vendor A

3. Separate storage network

4. Separte windows network

5. vCenter

B.

1. New storage vendor B

2. New Windows infrastructure (total new domain

3. Separate storagenetwork

4. Separte Windows Network

5. vCenter

Now what i want to realize is that the current VM's running on storage vendor A get moved to new storage vendor. So basically i want the whole infrastructure to be moved to new storage so i can put storage VENDOR a offline and and have the old en new infrastructure on storage vendor B.

Now i was thinking to put the current ESX host with 2 NIC's in the storage network of Storagevendor B, present the luns and migrate it offline. So put VM offline and move VMDK files.

What is the best way to proceed?

[weinstein5]

Without storage vmotion that would be the best way to migrate the VMs from storage  vendor A to storage vendor B - cold migrate the VMs

[SiCaNR]

Thanks for the reply. Now let's assume that the customer is using alot of MPIO from guest OS with storage vendor A. What's the the best route? I mean i could add a VMDK to the VM and robocopy everything over en migrate it to storage vendor B but are there any othe r ways?