I've been through the documentation for the VMware Converter, and it seems to be able to do what I want it to do but thought to ask in here if:
a) Anyone has actually done this successfully,
b) anything I'm overlooking as I will not be able to "test" this beforehand.
The Scenario
I have 2 discrete VMware clusters - There is no shared networking, storage etc. They are managed by seperate vCenter servers. The vCenter systems can talk across the network (not WAN) but are in seperate AD Domains (with a trust relationship)
Source - ESXi 5.1
Destination - ESXi 5.0
Requirements:
- move VMs from the source cluster to the destination cluster.
- VM's can be online or offline
- Source VMs may be at hardware version 9, 8 or 7 (unknown before hand)
- shutdown source
- bring up VM in its new home (new SID, IP Address)
Other than the obvious possible hardware version changes, and possibly re-installing VMware Tools, is there anything else I need to worry about?
Thanks in advance,
Roger