Tag Archives: migrate

NetApp head swap (FAS2020 / FAS3240) and upgrade (7.3.6 to 8.0.2)

Posted on January 8, 2012 by josh@sostechblog.com

Three years ago a client purchased a FAS2020, with 12 SAS disks in the head and a Fibre Channel shelf of ATA disks. After a year (or so) they added a second FC shelf The FAS2020 was a big success … Continue reading →

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Moving VMs from ESX to Workstation

Posted on March 30, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

Updated post for Workstation 12.5 (copy using Workstation) There are a few ways to migrate VMs around between VMware products including using vCenter Converter, 3rd party tools, and O/S tools (backup/restore) but one of the easiest ways is via the … Continue reading →

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Moving VMDK files

Posted on February 25, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

If you don’t have vSphere installed, or don’t have Storage vMotion and want to move vCenter itself there are several ways, the “vmkfstools” from the commandline, V2V with VMware Converter or another P2V tool, or by using the vSphere client’s … Continue reading →

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Migrate vCenter VM

Posted on February 24, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

If you are using Essentials, or otherwise don’t have vMotion but need to move your vCenter server around, here is a quick how-to. Note that other servers don’t need the workaround, if you have vCenter up you can easily migrate … Continue reading →

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