ESX 4.1 on hardware not supported

About 2.5 years ago I had membership on a virtualization with a tight enough budget project. We have a VI 3 Foundation license for 2 ESX host. I bought 2 SuperMicro servers that were on the HCL for ESX 3.5. I also built 2 servers SAN iSCSI. We lack ESX 3.5 update 5 and it worked great.

I'm looking to upgrade to 4.1, but my servers are not on the HCL. I talked to SuperMicro, and they said that they do not have the systems that we have for 4.1 certification because they are old. I've got approval of the budget for the vSphere Essentials Plus Kit, but no budget for new hardware.

I've got about 25 virtual machines that run on the 2 hosts and can run them all on a single host if I need to. I would like to install 4.1 on a host and test it on my hardware.

I guess my question is, if I move all my virtual machines to a host ESX 3.5 and install 4.1 on the other host, can I turn on some virtual machines on the host 4.1 for the tests and bring her back safely to the 3.5 host?

Any thoughts? VMs are all presented in the shared iSCSI storage.

If 4.1 is appealing to me, it's performance iSCSI software enhancements, and I could get vMotion with vSphere Essentials Plus Kit.

My ESX hosts are running on SuperMicro X7DW3 boards with 8 processor cores (2 physical processors) and 32 GB of RAM each.

Thanks for any input.

I downloaded the demo of 4.1. If I implemented a 4.1 Server vCenter and put my 3.5 & a host 4.1 in a data center, can I vMotion hosts between versions of different host? In reviewing the vMotion requirements, there is no mention that the ESX host must run the same version. I have a few off-production virtual machines that I tested with.

Yes, you will be able to vMotion very well.  However, you must leave your license server intact, so that your VI3 hosts can get their license information.

http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/vsp_4_legacy_host_lic.PDF

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