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  • 1.  VM Migration

    Posted Jul 12, 2022 09:21 PM

    Hello,

    I currently have a vCenter and ESxi in version 5.1.

    I just deployed a new vCenter and ESxi in versions 7.0

    One option would be to export those VMs to ova and then import them to the new vcenter.

    But I would like to know if it is feasible to add those vCenter 5.1 nodes to the new vCenter 7.0 cluster and then with a vmotion move those VMs to the new ESxi 7.0



  • 2.  RE: VM Migration

    Posted Jul 13, 2022 07:57 AM

    Hi, 

    It is not possible to connect esxi5.1 to vCenter 7.0. vCenter 7.0 supports esxi 6.5 and higher. 

    You can try to mount datastore to esxi.7.0 (if u have one in vCenter7.0) and remove vm from vSphere 5.1 and register this in vsphere 7.0 (vCenter 7.0) browsing datastore. 

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    Sebastian



  • 3.  RE: VM Migration

    Posted Jul 13, 2022 08:13 AM

    According to this tool: https://interopmatrix.vmware.com/Interoperability

    vCenter Server 7.x cannot manage an ESXi 5.1 host.

    Can you give the new hosts access to the old datastores, even temporarily?