move virtual machines to esxi4 og esxi5.5

Hello

We have a customer who has today esxi4 and vcenter 4.

They set up a new system of vmware next to it, with esxi5.5 and vcenter 5.5

They make the old SAN (FC) available in the new vcenter. But how do we migrate the virtual machines.

Could we just add one of the old esxi4 to the new vcenter 5.5 without interruption all vms and migrate them to 5.5?

Or should clone us virtual machines? (some are domain controllers)

Feel free to come with suggestions

Use of option 1) VMware vCenter Converter: VM P2V Converter | United States

Option 2) if both guests can see the SAN, just closed the VM down, remove the inventory on the old host, click the find an ESXi host 5.5 to the data store where this vm, and add it to the inventory.  Then you can power it on a d tools on this upgrade.

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