Migrating from ESX 3.5 to 4.0

Similar Questions

• Migrating from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1

  I am planning a migration of ESX 3.5 Uptade 2 to ESXi 4.1 Update 1 in September.  Material welcomes VI environment is in place for renewal of the lease.  I build the new environment vSphere and attach to the same storage shared as the existing ESX VI 3.5.  My plan is the following...

  1. Get and install a new hardware server (C3000 and BL460C G7).
     
  2. Installing vCenter 4.1 (leave vCenter in demo mode to expose all the features)
     
  3. Configure the plugin Update Manager vCenter
     
  4. Install ESXi 4.1 Update 1 on new hosts and add to vCenter 4.1
     
  5. Configure the new Cluster and configure HA and vMotion. (We are allowed for vSphere 4.1 Standard Edition)
     
  6. Linking hosts to Update Manager and sanitize with all updates.
     
  7. Configure virtual networks (host profiles are an option while in demo mode).
     
  8. Fix new hosts of VMFS existing databases.  (Data banks are VMFS version 3.31)
     
  9. Disconnect the Virtual Center 2.5 3.5 ESX host and add them to the new vCenter 4.1.
     
  10. Cold migrate VM ESX 3.5 hosts ESXi 4.1 bed and breakfast hosts
      
  11. Upgrade VMware tools on all guests.
      
  12. Upgrade all the guests computer virtual from version 4 to version 7.
      
  13. Detach the ESX host 3.5 since VMFS data warehouses.
      
  14. Remove the ESX 3.5 hosts vCenter 4.1
      
  15. Install all keys in license vSphere 4.1 (vSphere Standard Edition)
      
  16. Start the VM guests.
      
  17. Close and dismantle the old ESX 3.5 hosts.
      

  Any feedback is most appreciated.  Please let me know if I'm missing something.

  Then, you'd weigh your losses.  Do you have the characteristics of the hardware virtual v7 for these virtual machines or can you live with material v4?  Personally, I needed the changed block tracking which requires hardware v7.  It really comes down to what you need.  I recommend bringing them up to v7 but that's just my opinion.

• problems migrating from esx 3.5 to esxi 4.1

  Hello everyone,

  Migrate a virtual machine by host ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.1 host.
  No error message or anything.
  I turn on the virtual machine and it gives error "... the file specified is not a virtual disk' to refer to the vmdk.
  In the control settings and see that the drive is properly configured.
  The control data store and I see that the file is there.
  I move the virtual computer on the old host, to verify that nothing has damaged and magically continues without problems!
  I still move VM on the host 4.1 and gives me the same error.
  Past to comb through the newspaper, join, it seems that there is an inconsistency between the size of the disk and the size declared in descriptor.
  How is the 3.5 function?
  I insist on the fact that all other virtual machines, I moved the host esx 3.5 have absolutely no problem...
  any suggestion is welcome.
  Simon

  You are welcome. Please keep us updated on how it goes.

  Good luck.

  P. S.

  A great advantage to the use of converter is that it leaves the original in place. Assuming that it always works, you have as your backup in the case where it is wrong the first time. If you try power off and things will not try to convert the power on the machine. Install Conveter directly on the machine to duplicate.

• Using the converter to migrate from ESX 3.0.1 to 4.0 U1 replace NIC

  Hello

  I'm moving some VMS ESX 3.0.1 stand-alone has a new cluster of ESX 4.0 Update 1.

  The migration is successful, but I can't find the right order of things, so that the NETWORK card is not replaced during the conversion.

  I have shut down the virtual machine and choose to import as a former ESX virtual machine to the new ESX.

  Then, I tried several methods:

  -Convert and keep revision 4 material

  -Convert and edit the review of material 7 during conversion

  -Convert and edit the review of material 7 and upgrading VMware Tools during conversion

  I know that VMware tools must be upgraded before upgrading the virtual hardware, so maybe it's why this last two options does not work.

  After I've converted virtual machine and stayed at revision 4 of hardvare, the virtual machine still had a new NETWORK card when starts for the first time.

  How can I make the right way and keep the NETWORK map with all the settings intact during the conversion?

  Thanks in advance!

  With the converter, you can create a new virtual machine with a new MAC address, why Windows (and Linux with udev) guest operating system will create a new vNIC.

  You can try to save your configuration with netsh and restore it later.

  André

• A new license purchase to migrate from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1?

  Hello

  I have an existing installation of ESX 3.5 and I need to rebuild and install ESXi 4.1. The license I already bought for ESX 3.5 still works for ESXi 4.1, or he will have to buy a new license? Thank you

  If you have SnS on VI3 license, you will have a license vSphere4 key.  Check your licensing Portal

  https://www.VMware.com/licensing/license.Portal

• Migrate from ESX 4.0 to ESXi

  Hi, I have a 4.0 ESX Server I want to convert it to ESXi (other hosts of the Organization will be ESXi). I know I have to do a complete reinstall, but I'm not sure if the ESX license will be valid for ESXi. Can someone advise?

  Thanks in advance,

  Brian

  Hi Brian,.

  Your 'normal' license is valid for ESXi.  Your ESXi will win all the features included in your vSphere license.

  Best regards

  Marino

  (After reading this forum for many years, I gave my answer of fist)

• Migrating from ESX to Fusion

  Hello

  I have two Linux virtual machines running on ESX 3.0.2 and I want to get out of our server and run on Fusion 2.0.4 on my MacBook.

  Do you know some way I can get there?

  Best regards

  Export the virtual hard drives or use VMware vCenter Converter.

• migration of VM cold from ESX 3.5 to 4.0 with old to new hardware

  HI, we currently have some s IBM X 440 (Intel Foster, think Pentium 4s) we are looking for plans to migrate to esx 4.0 and with this, it seems that we need a major hardware upgrade.

  While we are looking at is some Intel Xeon X 3323 machine like some DELL T100 or T30 or some of the new stuff with E5504 (Nehalem) server as some IBM system x 3400 M2-based.

  So, I would like to know if there are any additional steps I should do prior to a cold migration (assuming you cannot vMotion between the two hot), with the new system added to the farm. Or is it simply impossible and we need to recreate the images from scratch?

  We would like to make two plans is to use the migration within the farm tool or a cluster or w/e they call it now and the other one is when it breaks and we do something more complicated.

  It would be like:

  (1) add new machine of the same farm with add-on host in the VI client

  (2) migrate virtual machines more with the migration tool.

  Or if this fails due to network problems, you can:

  (1) use vmkfstools-i to move the virtual disks to a space of EXT3

  2 (a) use console / ubuntu live CD to mount a USB key and move the virtual disks to the new machine

  SCP use 2B) to do the same as above

  (3) to recreate the VMX file to the new machine

  Here are the General steps (spreading things like VMs off, or update tools and etc.), and I was wondering if they would at least work or any who tried such migration between old and new materials.

  Thank you

  Ok. Since you have not vCenter, you can turn off the virtual machines and just copy the VM via SCP.

  After this opening Datastore Borwser in VI client, find the .vmx file, right-click on it, "add to the inventory.

  ---

  VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• How can I move VMs from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.1?

  The title is fairly free uses. I have an old ESX 3.5 with a few machines on this subject, I want to move to the new 4.1. How can I do this?

  Thank you.

  You have vcenter? If you cannot migrate from cold or storage vmotioin - otherwise just copy the directory of the virtual machine from one host to the other housing the host using something like WinSCP - and re-register on the new host. Alternatively, you can use VMware Converter to migrate the environment vSphere-

• Migrating to ESX 4.1 options and VC

  I'm about to start our migration to ESX 4.1 and I was wondering what might be the best way to do it.  I was looking at the compatibility matrix and I see that vCenter 4.0 U2 can support ESX 4.1 boxes but vCetner 4.1 can only support ESX 4.1 boxes not 4.0.

  Current config is a box of hardware running vCenter 4.0 U1, but the hardware does not support 64-bit OS, so I'll build a VM to run our new VC that can handle a 64 bit OS.  Can I put them side by side, obviously different name and pointing to a new database.

  Its more a matter of opinion, should I do my vCenter 4.0 U2 and perform the migration and then once all my 4.0 hosts are converted to 4.1 and then move the VC up to 4.1 or should I get the new built VC and then simply move hosts I will?  In my mind, I'd rather have a VC manage all my hosts and not them distributed between two servers vCenter.

  Thoughts?

  -Kyle

  «"RParker wrote: I guess I was mistaken, everything CAN be virtualized"»

  khughes wrote:

  WARNING - busy sorry on DayQuil sorry if my question was phrased wrong or things don't make sense.  --

  Hey... summer he does that!

  Sorry read the backwards compatibility matrix.  Makes it easy and not our material can not support 64-bit OS (running on 32-bit 4.0u1).  I don't really like about the history / performance data and I have heard of from 4.0 to 41 DB upgrade problems.  I'll just build on a virtual machine running 2003 x 64 and use it to run vCenter 4.1 and then migrate our 4.0 hosts on that.

  If you must rebuild the host to vCenter operating system, and if you have the OS, a better host operating system might be 2008 R2?  Just my personal preference, the 2003, x 64 is supported.

• In migration node ESX 3.5 VMOTION behavior

  Hello

  I have ten knots in my main ESX cluster and VMotion is enabled.

  I just want to know what exactly the behavior of vmotion if I start to migrate an ESX 3.02 node to 3.5u5?

  Is the behavior of vmotion is to migrate all virtual machines on that node to another and after re - import on the node with 3.5?

  I can do without stopping my VMs?

  THX

  Put the host in maintenance mode, this means that the host will not be used until it has been upgraded. as soon as the host is removed from maintenance mode DRS will start migration of virtual machines back. If you have any DRS enabled on your cluster.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

  -

• Thunderbird. Migration from Windows Mail (Win7) and Firefox 35.0.1 is not compatible with ImportExportTools of Mozilla Support

  Try to migrate from Windows Mail, NOT Windows Live Mail in Windows 7 Home Premium.
  When I try and import the messages I get the message ' ImportExportTools is not compatible with FireFox 35.0.1.
  I'm following the instructions at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-thunderbird.

  Y at - it a compatible version?

  Concerning

  Chris Parker

  You can download the extension using Firefox.
  But you will need to install it in Thunderbird.
  http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.UK/3_How_to_install_Add-ons_in_Thunderbird.html

• migration from Outlook Express loses everything after 'group '.

  Hello
  I migrated from Outlook Express to Thunderbird on XP, then moved the files to Windows 8.
  I had a 'group' in my OE address book. Nothing after that that group name (which began with an H) has been migrated to the new address book. In other words, I lost everything after H.

  I also have these contacts on Gmail. Y at - it an easy way recover of EO (I guess I could remove the Group and start over, but it's a long process and I'm afraid to lose the mail I already sent on tuberculosis), or y at - it an easy way to get from gmail?

  Thank you.

  S

  There are several solutions to your problem, which is the best for you which I do not pretend to know.

  There is the possibility of simply to copy the WAB to outlook express for Windows 7 and double click it to him bringing in the windows contacts folder. I have instructions here http://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/windows-contacts.html that include the Windows Contacts folder in Thunderbird.

  Alternatively, you can install one of the Add-ons to gmail contact sync. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/google-contacts

• Are there plans to add "XMARKS" for mobile Firefox? I want to migrate from Dolphin. I have the premium version of the "LASTPAST / XMARKS ' installed on

  Are there plans to add "XMARKS" for mobile Firefox?
  I want to migrate from Dolphin.
  I have the premium version of the "LASTPAST / XMARKS ' installed on 4 platforms.

  I noticed that a user has requested to have problems to install XMARKS. I couldn't find this add on. I have it on my computers Windows Firefox. I also have it on my mobile devices.
  Thank you.
  Dick Proulx

  Hello luckyduck, as is the case with xmarks too, the overwhelming majority of the addons is not created by mozilla, but by independent third-party developers. so if you want to know if it is planned an extension for firefox on android porting or have other requests for features, please communicate with the developers involved directly in order to get a better answer. Thank you for your understanding!

• HP Pavilion dv6-6c45se: migration from hard drive to ssd

  Dear Sir / Madam
  I'm about to migration from HDD to ssd on my laptop.
  Now the question is: is my motherboard support sata 3?
  My laptop computer product name: HP Pavilion dv6-6c45se Entertainment Notebook PC

  My product number phone: A7P17EA #ABV
  I'll be glad if you help me
  Thank you

  Probably not with a 2d gen i5 processor, but it does not matter. It will support an SSD SATA-III, even if the SSD transfer is limited to SATA-II. It will always be very, very fast and you will never see no practical difference. Download the SSD, you will not be sorry. Let us know if you need help most.