Migrating VM's from host to host

[Riccochet]

In the process of planning to move about 8 VM's from one esxi host to another. Is there a painless way to do this that won't be extremely time consuming?

 

[D-EJ915]

The free vcenter converter can move VMs from one host to another.

 

[Dytralis]

if you use shared storage (ie. a NFS or iSCSI datastore) you can unregister the VM from one server and register it on the other

 

[Wrench00]

Install vcenter app add your hosts. right click and go to migrate.

 

[jenuster]

Yeah, the migrate feature using local storage works great. Just turn off the VM and click on the migrate button. Over a 1 gbps link, it should take about 2.5-3 hrs to move a 400 GB VM to another host.

I tried using the Veeam quick migration feature but that actually takes a lot longer.