Moving VM's To New Hardware Host

[Carlosinfl]

I've had two Linux VM's running on our IBM blades for the past year. The servers run fine but but we're getting rid of the IBM hardware in favor for new Oracle blades. The blades will also run the identical version of VMware ESXi Hypervisor but my question is since the new host will have completely different CPU's, RAM, and chipsets, can I safely move my VM clients from the current server over to the new server with out impacting the clients themselves? Will the Linux VM's have problems because they've got modules loaded based on the hardware presented to it during the install versus the new machine?

Thanks for any info and or clarification!

 

[nessus]

If you are moving from the same version of ESX or ESXi on the old hardware to the new. Everything just moves across as the virtual hardware presented to the guest OS is the same.

If you are moving from an older revision of ESX or ESXi to a newer revision, you can still move directly across with no issues, but you may want to upgrade the hardware emulation revision if it adds features you want to use.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/esxi-and-esx/why-esxi.html