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  • 1.  ESX v4 on disc, ESXi v5 on USB - can this be ?

    Posted Oct 16, 2012 08:13 AM

    Hello all.

    I have a x3850 machine with a ESX v 4.0.0 on the disc, but would like to test ESXi v5.1 without disturbing the existing VMs.

    Can I burn the flash USB with ESX v 5.1 and start the existing VM(s) under the new op sys, and then remove the USB and start the old ESX v4 ?

    Does anybody tested this scenario ?

    Thanks.



  • 2.  RE: ESX v4 on disc, ESXi v5 on USB - can this be ?

    Posted Oct 16, 2012 08:38 AM

    Yes - that is possible. Actually I do things like that quite often.

    Do not modify the virtual hardware - then your VMs will still work with the older platform



  • 3.  RE: ESX v4 on disc, ESXi v5 on USB - can this be ?

    Posted Oct 16, 2012 09:08 AM

    Thank you, mr Continuum - this is the kind of answer I was expecting,

    ... telling what to do (or to be able to do)

    ... and indicating WHAT NOT TO DO ... jejeje

    I shall modify as less as possible, of course : the hard disk has 30 VM's, using ONLY 1000+ GB, so just to copy them again shall be ... uf

    Thanks. Sebastian.