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Re: Converting existing esxi 5.1 vm with iscsi guest connections

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To answer your questions Plamen

 

Let me try to reexplain what i'm trying to accomplish.  I am implementing a new SAN and need to consolidate my vmdks and other storage

 

I have an exchange server that is in my vmware infrastructure

 

It's c drive is in an existing shared storage datastore as it should be and moving it to the new san is no problem

It's D drive is connected to a Netapp SAN using iscsi,.

It's E and F drive are connected to another Storage appliance through iscsi.

 

What i need to accomplish is converting these iscsi drives to a vmdk and storing them on my new SAN.  I need to do this to utilize Veeam and my new hardware.

 

My question then is how should i accomplish this having as small of downtime as possible.  My initial thought was to do a P2V into a new machine.  Now i'm wondering if i can just "virtualize" those iscsi drives and add them to the existing VM.

 

Thoughts/ideas?

 

Thanks


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