Upgrade Standalone ESX 3.5 from Old hw to new HW

[toguns]

I have ESX 3.5 host sitting on old HW (IBM x346) with life vm, I want to upgrade this host to a newer box (IBM x3650) however the newer box will be ESX 4.0, and I want to keep same configuration, same hostname as in the old box. Any idea of how this can be done??? Thank you

[AndreTheGiant]

Moved to upgrade forum (but is not an upgrade, just a migration).

Make a backup of you VMs.

Take a screenshot of network configuration.

Power off your host.

Install the new one, with same name and IP.

Replicate the networking configurarion.

Restore the VMs.

Andre

[Dave_Mishchenko · Accepted solution]

Can you bring up the new host with a temporary IP address? Once you're done migrating the VMs you can shutdown the old host and then update the hostname / IP address on the new host.




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[toguns]

Thank you guys