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VM Migrations

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402blownstroker

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I am looking to migrate my current VM setup to new hardware. What would be the easiest/best way of backing up a couple of VMs on the old hardware and then restoring them on the new hardware?
 
What is the hypervisor you are using and what is the new hypervisor? In the end is their multiple hosts or just one host and you are refreshing the hardware in it?
 
peanuthead said:
What is the hypervisor you are using and what is the new hypervisor? In the end is their multiple hosts or just one host and you are refreshing the hardware in it?
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Single host I am updating hardware. Mainly moving to a different RAID controller, so I will need to requild the array the VMs are sitting on.
 
Veeam Backup Free Edition is probably the easiest and quickest. You could also use WinSCP to copy them to and from.
 
OK, I grabbed a copy of Veeam and got it installed on a Windows box. I am runnign EXSi 5.5. When I try to do a backup it says something to the fact that I do not have a license or the EXSi server is not supported.

For backing up and restoring a copy of VMs, can I just rsync the datastores for them to a USB external drive, create the new EXSi server and VMs, and then rsync the databases on top of the new VMs?
 
I would just setup the new server and datastores, shutdown the old VMs, then WinSCP (SFTP) them over and walk away. it will take some time to complete depending on speed.
 
Donwload VM Folders from old box,
Upload VM Folders to new box
Import virtual machines (Can you import without vCenter server?)
 
k1pp3r said:
Donwload VM Folders from old box,
Upload VM Folders to new box
Import virtual machines (Can you import without vCenter server?)
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Yes. just navigate the data store and find the specific file extension for vm you are wanting to import, right click and import. (been awhile)
 
Shockey said:
Yes. just navigate the data store and find the specific file extension for vm you are wanting to import, right click and import. (been awhile)
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Use the ESXi filebrowser, open the VM folder that you want to import.
Right mouse click on the .vmx file and select "add to inventory".

Then start the VM. You are asked if the VM is moved or copied. That's it.
Easiest way to handle a datastore is to use NFS shared datastores
either on a dedicated NAS or with a virtualized ZFS NAS/SAN on ESXi itself
(All-In-One).

This also works on ESXi free.
 
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