Upgrade to vSphere and change equipment

2 ESC PE2050 3.5U3 cluster with CX300 FC SAN

I need to upgrade to vSphere - VC Inc., as well as change the PE250s to new hardware (also PE2950, but with the rear plate PCI-Express and more memory) and replace the Equalogic PS5000X iSCSI SAN

(I find the CX300 with 10K disks being totally useless in terms of speed and virtually unusable in the current configuration)

What would be the best way to do it?

-upgrade of VC,

-Add 2 new servers connected to the SAN iSCSI with a clean install of vSphere,

-configure new servers,

-do the old servers through to see Software initiator iSCSI SAN.

-move the VM to SAN iSCSI with vMotion

-give up the old servers & FC SAN

Is it achievable?

Thank you

SEB

Your research plan sound with the exception that you will use "Storage VMotion" to move the virtual machines, not of VMotion. By opting for vCenter/ESX 4 you'll do yourself a lot of favors too:

1 iSCSI Performance is improved in ESX4 (even if you do not mention if you use hardware or software initiators)

2 storage VMotion is integrated in vCenter 4 which will move the easy virtual machines

3 storage VMotion is also much faster on ESX4, but I don't know that you'll see the speed increase from your source VMs are on ESX 3.

You must also update all the tools and the virtual material on your virtual machines, this can be done with the new update manager.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the EqualLogic iSCSI stuff is often times much faster than the fiber (according to the table). I wouldn't trust anyones blanket assertion that fiber is always faster than iscsi.

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