What's the best way to Moving VM's from old datacenter to new datacenter (physical location )

[VM_Expert]

Hello Team,

We need to mover about 11 Prod VM's to new datacenter. What's the best way?

Thank you

Imran

[PCTechStream]

Just because you don't have that many, you can do this manually.

* Backup the data from all the virtual machines manually

* Copy all the virtual machines folders into an external HDD "Use vSphere Client"

* Paste all the virtual machine folders into the new datacenter\datastore. (physical location )  "Use vSphere Client"

* From the new datacenter\datastore right click the .vmx file from the VM folder & "Add To Inventory"

* Power on the VMs & modify the settings of the guest OS's network for the new environment. Done!

Raul.

VMware VDI Administrator.

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[bluefirestorm]

Sometimes moving of data may fall under regulations depending on the industry (health/hospital, military, banks, etc) that the VM(s) are for.

There might be rules/regulations in transport of data that could contain customer and other sensitive data through external media (such as hard disk, tapes) and how this should be handled before/after transfer/transport of data.

It would be best to check these rules also (aside from the technology required) so as not to run afoul when IT auditing comes.

[VM_Expert]

ok,

Thank you Raul

[dmeyner22]

If you have a tunnel between the 2 locations you could do a v2v and sync the data on completion.