UPGRADE SUCESSFULL TO VSPHERE

[vcms]

hai

friends i upgraded the esx3.5 environment to vsphere sucessfully

thanks to ANDRE THE GIANT, SBEAVER for guiding me on this sucess

the risk was that all were production servers with out any back up if some thing goes wrong then we are dead :_|

thanks again to sbeaver and andre the giant screen shots attached

vamsi

[Saadat · Accepted solution]

Congrats...

Don't risk it, Although I did the same. But I prefered to reinstall ESX since it is 64 bit, I prefered a clean install. (small environment)

have fun.

[vcms]

hai sadat

what you say is true, dont risk if you dont have backup :smileyshocked: but my company ran out of storage space so i was forced to take risk :smileyangry:

never go for upgrade if you dont have backup

vamsi

[ITOSITU]

Hey nice to hear,

you may want to share a little bit of your sizing? Im in Phase of maving an complete x86 Datacenter to VM, so you may describe your servers, network and/or stotage confs? wanted to hear some expircences from the "real world"

Thanks

[Saadat]

My environment is small, 5 ESX Servers, iSCSI SAN, Dedicated Stacked Cisco 3750g Switches for iSCSI Traffic, 20+ VMs.

Just a recommendation. Use professional tools and do clean up your VMs if you are going to do P2V.

Don't assign to many vCPUs for each VM, Do analysis for your Physical environment before moving them to Virutal (resource utilization). VMware has a tool called capacity planner to determin the best fit for your environment, but that is when you have your physical and virtual side by side (parallel)

I had to use existing servers for ESX, (just one extra physical server to help the migration)