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The hard drive?? 5. RE: Migrating VM from ESX 2.5 to ESX 3.01 Posted Apr 11, 2007 07:31 PM No you do not need to because Converter creates a copy of the VM files. Converter needs to be able to see your ESX Server 2.5.x host via the VirtualCenter 2.x Server, and it sees your target ESX Server 3.0.1 host via VirtualCenter 2.x or directly.Note you can also use VirtualCenter to migrate your ESX Server 2.5.x VM to your ESX Server 3.0.1 host. After the "clone" you should upgrade the virtual hardware. 6. RE: Migrating VM from ESX 2.5 to ESX 3.01 Posted Apr 11, 2007 07:38 PM But the C drive of my ESX 2.x VM is on a SAN drive which could not be seen by the Virtual Center 2.0 or the target ESX 3.01 server. So when Converter create a copy of the VM files, where can it get the information from if it could not see the source vmdks?? 7. RE: Migrating VM from ESX 2.5 to ESX 3.01 Posted Apr 11, 2007 07:47 PM If you use VirtualCenter to clone your VM, VirtualCenter will bridge 2 hosts so that both hosts need not see the original VM and its files.If using Converter, Converter talks to your destination via port 902 to create a VM, either directly through ESX Server or VirtualCenter. It then uses the network to copy the files. Your original ESX Server host must have the SAN connection to the source files, just

Version of ESX than we have in production). The VM Server converted images typically require us to manually log into each sesson and manually remove VM Tools before we can reinstall the updated ESX Tools. Without removing the VM Server tools manually first, the installation of the ESX Tools would always run but never truly updated the tools; at least not when looking at the "About" form or the VirtualCenter console where it would report back "OK" for the tools. Updating the VM Tools isn't really my issue, however. My issue is that I would like to streamline this entire process and either use better utilitizes or methods to decrease the recovery time when performing these image refreshs.Now, I know Vizioncore offers a vReplicator product. To me, this would be perfect for our ESX environment. One of the problems I see (and was told by their Tech guy) was that I cannot have two separate isolated VirtualCenters. Sicne my VirtualCenter is isolated and knows nothing about our hot-site's VirtualCenter... I basically cannot use vReplicator; regardless of having adequate bandwidth and end-to-end connectivity.... Is there a way I can just add another VirtualCenter as a data center to my console that would allow this to work?I know there are products like Double-Take that claim to do a lot of stuff, but to me costs and configuraton requirements may be prohibited for me. I have no control over our hot-site and having a real-time failure capability, although very exciting, sounds like it wouldn't really work for me in my scenario unless we had some redundant network and routes to our hot-site that automatically switched things over; without affecting everything else on the network that may no be down.I have tried and have succesfully used wsFTP Pro to automatically FTP my esxRanger image folder to our hot-site's FTP server using our LAN-to-LAN VPN that we have. It does work, but wsFTP Pro sometimes crashes (which happens on multiple servers trying this) and I believe is either related to latency issues , number of files being sent, or maybe the size of all the files attempting to send. I have succesfully sent about 12+ esxRanger images totally about 80GB worth to our hot-site and successfully restored. I have tried other tools like ROBOCOPY which is just too painfully slow with all the NETBIOS overhead, etc. I haven't really found any other nice synchronizatoin tools that I can use that appear to work. I am not opposed to spending some money for something that works. I did like the fact that wsFTP has an FTP sync utility which I could never relaly get to work correctly due to file sizes.If anyone can help or share

The ISO image, you should mount it on the host. Step 2 Double-click autorun. Step 3 In the VMware vCenter Installer screen, click vCenter Server. Step 4 Click Install. Step 5 Choose a language and click OK. Step 6 Click Next. Step 7 In the Patent Agreement screen, click Next. Step 8 In the License Agreement screen, click the I agree to the terms in the license agreement radio button. Step 9 Click Next. Step 10 In the Database Options screen, click Next. Step 11 Click the Upgrade existing vCenter Server database radio button and check the I have taken a backup of the existing vCenter Server database and SSL certificates in the folder: C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\SSL\. check box. Step 12 From the Windows Start Menu, click Run. Step 13 Enter the name of the folder that contains the vCenter Server database and click OK. Step 14 Drag a copy of the parent folder (SSL) to the desktop as a backup. Step 15 Return to the installer program. Step 16 Click Next. Step 17 In the vCenter Agent Upgrade screen, click the Automatic radio button. Step 18 Click Next. Step 19 In the vCenter Server Service screen, check the Use SYSTEM Account check box. Step 20 Click Next. Step 21 Review the port settings and click Next. Step 22 In the vCenter Server JVM Memory screen based on the number of hosts, click the appropriate memory radio button. Step 23 Click Next. Step 24 Click Install. Step 25 Click Finish. This step completes the upgrade of the vCenter Server. Step 26 Upgrade the VMware vSphere Client to your desired ESXi version. Step 27 Open the VMware vSphere Client. Step 28 From the Help menu, choose About VMware vSphere. Step 29 Confirm that the vSphere Client and the VMware vCenter Server are both the same VMware versions. Step 30 Click OK, and exit the VMware vSphere Client. What to Do NextComplete the steps in Upgrading the vCenter Update Manager to Release 5.5. Upgrading the vCenter Update Manager to Release 5.5 Note This upgrade procedure also applies to vCenter Update Manager 5.0, 5.0