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Re: Best way to move a VM to new hardware

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vMotion is included in starting from Essentials Plus, Standard, Ent, Ent+... licenses. It requires shared storage between the hosts to work. If you have vSphere 5.1, then you can perform vMotion even without shared storage. I am adding links to couple of docs for your reading:

 

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc_50%2FGUID-3B41119A-1276-404B-8BFB-A32409052449.html&resultof=%22vmotion%22%20

 

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf

 

Since there is no shared storage, you can cold migrate the VM:

 

--> Take a backup clone of a VM

--> PowerOff

--> Right Click and select Migrate

--> Select change both host and Datastore

--> Select the Destination host and Datastore

--> Keep the format as same

--> Finish

 

There are few other options as well like using vmkfstools (CLI), converter and so on. This KB article discusses some of the other options. But I feel cold migrate is the easiest one.

 

...hth!


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