
Verifying Hardware compatibility & BIOS firmware
VMWARE MIGRATE VM DRIVERS
NIC and HBA compatibility is covered in drivers section below.
VMWARE MIGRATE VM UPGRADE
Its very important to check the Servers, Storage, NIC Cards and HBA Cards compatibility before planning for the upgrade or implementation of ESXi. Hardware compatibility can be verified here. VMWare products compatibility can be verified here. Verifying the VMWare products compatibility and hardware compatibility is very important. Integrations with vCenter server like backup, SRM and other.VM RDM Lun details – with the SCSI ID mapping for each lun, RDM type (physical/virtual), pointer location.Hardware version of all VM’s, VMWare tools installation status.All VM’s Name,OS, IP, port group, Datastore details.EVC Mode information and server maximum supported EVC mode.Standard switch or Distributed switch in use with its port groups, uplinks and vLan details.Existing Server hardware model, Make along with NIC and HBA cards info.( this is important if same hardware is used for upgrade).Existing ESXi Hosts Version and Build no.After getting the information from RVTools we need to analyze the info and gather below information. Thanks to RVTools which will do this in just couple of minutes. Gathering the existing vSphere environment details is very important. Migrating VM’s with RDM (Physical / Virtual)įor the successful migration we need to know the existing environment completely.Migrating VM’s between ESXi hosts of Different Versions under same vCenter server.Migrating VM’s from Old vCenter to NEW vCenter ( no VC upgrade).vCenter server Upgrade from existing VC 5.x.Fresh Installation of vCenter without Upgrade.Upgrading vCenter server from 6.0 or later to 6.7.

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