SOW for P2V and V2V

Hello

I'm new to VMware and still did not register in any activity related to vsphere 5 again.  Currently, my company has an agreement that needs me to run a P2V and V2V exercise for 800 server in a company and I don't know what that should I have to prepare for the conversion to succeed.

There are a few question I wanted to ask and hope that all of you who are expert on that can provide me with a guide to archive this task

Scenario:

A company must consolidate all servers in site A, through p2v and v2v and bring them to site B and pull up all machines in a Cloud environment.

Issues related to the:

1. do I need an ESXi host and storage SAN (virtual infrastructure environment) to store all the converted machines from which this converted machine will be transferred to the cloud to be use on a remote site?

2. If my client wanted to store all machines converted in the (NFS) network attached storage and import them into the Cloud Computing environment, this will be done using vmware vcenter converter?

3. If I'm using vcenter converter 5, what is the conversion format suitable that I need to use in order for the converted servers to be used in the cloud?

4. I have the program installation and virtual environment that consist of esxi host and iscsi storage, I convert a power on machine virtual infrastructure format and launch successfully in the esxi host. Problem is that I couldn't find an option to import a virtual machine since the converted file (NFS) and that's why I need to confirm if what format are suitable for the mentioned script so that I can import the converted NFS/SAN storage server.

5. What are the other information I might need to know about this situation as:

  • Hardware compatibility for legacy server to participate in the activity of p2v
  • Activate the service ports of the network firewall/ports that must be for the conversion process

Grateful if you guys (expertise) can give me advice to make it happen. Thank you in advance and hope you guys can answer this question.

Hi Eric

I'm not sure I understand your request of stil. The closest thing I associate is the command "Add to inventory" in "Datastore browser" in vSphere client. If this is the case, it opens a wizard to help you to choose the host ESX (the one who can see the data store). However it has nothing to do with the converter. In fact it is about adding to the inventory, not import.

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