Hi all,
I'm staring to think about my planning for a migration from our current v4.0 system to a 5.1/5.5 setup on new metal. I'm getting my head around most of the process easily, but I was wondering about what my best approach to migrating my VM's from one infrastructure to another would be.
I've had multiple suggestions from multiple knowledgeable parties. The guys from Dell Storage who're peripherally involved were suggesting my best way to move the VM's was to backup and restore, and one other person suggested using the import functionality in the vSphere Client. Both sound like a way to complicate the issue. Both the new system and the old system will have access to the same SAN storage, so what I'd like to know is can I simply power down a VM and remove it from the inventory on the v4.0 system, then browse the datastore on the v5.x system and add the VM to the inventory there (if the 5.x system is configured the same as the 4.0 system)? Or am I just being hopeful in thinking it might be that simple?
Thanks.