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  • 1.  ESXi Machine Swap

    Posted Nov 16, 2010 12:29 AM

    Hi Guys,

    I have a White Box ESXi server machine and the motherboard went on it. I got a new motherboard, now if I replace the motherboard, will all the drives be formatted when I boot up or will all the files be intact like they were before?

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: ESXi Machine Swap

    Posted Nov 16, 2010 12:56 AM

    Hi!

    Everything will remain intact as long as the hardware is the same.



  • 3.  RE: ESXi Machine Swap

    Posted Nov 16, 2010 01:03 AM

    The SATA card and the hard-drives will be the same, but the motherboard and NIC will be different. It will be an ASUS motherboard instead of a GIGABYTE. Does that make a difference or as long as the hard-drives and the controller are the same?



  • 4.  RE: ESXi Machine Swap
    Best Answer

    Posted Nov 16, 2010 01:13 AM

    You may need to reconfig your NIC settings, but as long as the datastores hold all of your vmdks are unaffected, then you should be good to go. Make sure the new mobo is up to speed on the HCL..



  • 5.  RE: ESXi Machine Swap

    Posted Nov 16, 2010 01:16 AM

    Thanks a lot! That really helps, the new mobo is an Asus P5G41-M LE/CSM and I've got an Intel PWLA8391GTBLK PRO/1000 GT nic.

    Thanks again!



  • 6.  RE: ESXi Machine Swap

    Posted Nov 16, 2010 01:23 AM

    Good luck! Let us know how it goes.

    Cheers!