Not Available. Available from vSphere 4. Storage VMotion. Virtual CPUs per host. Virtual Machines per host. Logical processors per host. RAM per host. Maximum Service console Memory. VMware Data Recovery. EVC is introduced in vSphere 4. Yes but without options to reserve failover capacity. Admission Control is improved to provide more flexible configuration options to reserve failover capacity.
High Availability Clustering with Windows Server , , Available in vSphere 4. Available to support MSCS on win Hosts per storage volume. Fiber Channel paths to LUN.
NFS Datastores. Hardware iSCSI initiators per host. Virtual Machine Hot Add Support. Number of virtual CPUs per virtual machine. The 3. I have a vague recollection that the jump from ESX 3.
The jump from 3. The most straightforward way might be to do as Scottd suggested and use VMware converter on your existing guests and V2V them, essentially like you were converting a physical machine to a virtual one. There will be downtime while you're moving the VMs then. Use the free converter from VMware to migrate them from the old host to the new.
Since the Procs are of different flavors you can't do it using VMotion I don't think. I've not tried to upgrade from 3. It saved all VMs and settings and everything. I would also check on the VMware communities to see if there's maybe a how-to over there if you want to go the host upgrade route. Having used the converter many times recently I'm going to try Hyper-V in my house for fun it may need to be installed a couple of times to get it work correctly For V2V you have to take the VM's offline so there will be some downtime.
You will want to upgrade the Virtual Hardware to Version 8. Someone in my VMware class said there is a way, but VMware won't support it. Not able to upgrade the 3. Will the vCenter Converter still convert the 3.
Wouldn't it be possible to have a datastore created in 3. That way you'd migrate via storage vmotion from VMFS 3? I know the servers are currently virtual and everyone is saying V2V, but I have to stress that given the vast difference between the source and destination ESX versions i. This is mostly anecdotal, but we had some VM's that were derived from an old version of VM hardware and V2V was causing huge issues, so we did a P2V like it was a physical box and that worked without a problem.
I'm fairly sure you can't join a 3. Also assumes the OP has VCenter Standard or higher, which is unclear from the original post so I'm betting it's not the case. The FAS is directly attached to the 3. It contains bug fixes described in Resolved Issues and a known issue described in Known Issues.
It contains bug fixes described in Resolved Issues, and also incorporates the following new features:. Converter supports restoring Consolidated Backup images of any guest operating system type. These limitations include:. VMware Converter provides an experimental command line interface for migrations VMware provides p2vTool as a tool for migrating physical and virtual source machines with a command line interface CLI.
Support for this CLI is Experimental. You need an Enterprise license to use p2vTool to migrate machines. The one exception is restoring a VMware Consolidated Backup image; in this case p2vTool can execute the query, verify, import, and postprocess options without needing a license if it detects that the source is a VCB image.
In moving from P2V Assistant to VMware Converter, you see more options and abilities in migrating physical machines, along with the new ability to migrate virtual machines.
In moving from Virtual Machine Importer to VMware Converter, you see more options and abilities in migrating virtual machines, along with the new ability to convert physical machines. The Converter installer uninstalls previously installed versions of Converter such as 3.
All target operating systems should have the latest patches available from Microsoft as of the release of this product. Select Workstation 4. After the import is complete, use vmkfstools on the target ESX machine to import the resulting Workstation 4. Only Workstation 5.
Support for the following guest operating systems is Experimental. VMware Converter 3 can clone source images containing these operating systems, but the destination virtual machine may or may not work without additional configuration after import. In particular, if the source image contains unsupported hardware, you might need to modify the configuration of the destination virtual machine before using it:.
New Scheduled tasks are not performed after physical to virtual hot cloning of Windows systems After performing a physical to virtual conversion, the account context of scheduled tasks is not preserved when the system is rebooted and the task associated with a specific user account is started at logon. Workaround: In Converter 3. This conversion scenario is not supported.
New When you resize disks to 'Min size' in the Converter wizard, the resulting new disk size is slightly larger If you hot clone a physical source machine and specify Min size for the source data, the actual disk size created is approximately 10 percent larger than the displayed minimum size. Workaround: Manually configure the static IP settings. New Task fails for remote Windows source machine when you navigate back and forth in the Conversion wizard When all of the following circumstances exist, the physical source machine does not reboot:.
New Source virtual machine networks are not reflected in the default networks of the OVF package When you create an OVF virtual appliance, the networks in the source virtual machine are not reflected in the default networks of the OVF package. Instead, Converter includes one default network, VMNetwork. You can edit the Network section on the virtual appliance Details page to add more networks if required.
FAT file systems do not support files greater than 2GB. New System Restore checkpoints are not removed in target virtual machine When performing block-level, volume-based cloning of a VMware virtual machine ESX Server or Workstation , regardless of whether you selected the Remove all System Restore checkpoints option in the Conversion wizard, these checkpoints are not removed in the target virtual machine.
Workaround: In the source virtual machine, grant everyone full control of the System Volume Information folder:. New Non-ASCII virtual machine names during cold clone cause Converter to quit with an error message During cold cloning, if you use non-ASCII characters for target virtual machine names, although it appears that the import is progressing, Converter issues an error message and quits. New The 'Create a separate disk for each volume' option is not recommended for multi-boot systems The Create a separate disk for each volume option on the Source Data page of the Conversion wizard does not support multi-boot systems.
If you clone a physical or virtual machine that has a multi-boot configuration, every system volume except for the recognized system volume is placed on a new disk. This prevents the target virtual machine from booting into any of the additional system volumes. Workaround: Deselect additional system volumes so they are not cloned in the target virtual machine.
New OVA file is overwritten if an. If, however, the existing. The source virtual machine does not have the appropriate drivers A log file error message such as 'Unable to find symmpi. This is usually observed in Windows Server SP1. Vista is fully supported as a guest operating system on Workstation 6.
Workstation 4. Hot clone of Windows Vista fails with permission error Although you log in as a user with administrative privileges, the clone of Windows Vista operating system fails because of insufficient permission to perform the operation. Installer creates a new vmware-client-config. Network adapter instances are not listed under the Advanced tab in the Network configuration window when using Converter Boot CD for cold cloning Broadcom's NetXtreme II Ethernet controllers and are not listed under the Advanced tab in the Network configuration window.
These network adapters are not detected during cold cloning because of limitations in the WinPE operating system. The network device's advanced options are not available, even though network connectivity is provided. Snapshot fails when cloning an unformatted Windows volume Vmware Converter does not support hot cloning of a recognized, but unformatted, Windows volume.
When doing a hot clone, you must deselect any unformatted volumes. The target virtual machine is not bootable if the active system volume is not formatted by Microsoft Operating System When you import a virtual machine by using a volume-based cloning method and the source machine's active system volume is not formatted by Microsoft Operating System, the target virtual machine might not boot up.
Workaround: Use disk-based cloning import all disks and maintain the size option by running the Converter Boot CD. Manual cleanup required of some Converter Agent files from remote source physical machine In some cases, the automatic cleanup of Converter Agent files from the system on which it ran is incomplete.
To clean up manually recommended , follow these steps:. If the source machine boots from an IDE disk, the target virtual machine created by Converter boots from the wrong disk because a VMware virtual machine looks for the first disk in the disk list. Incorrect reboot warning when installing Converter manager only When installing only the Converter manager, and not the Converter agent, on machines running Windows or Windows NT operating systems, you do not need to reboot despite the Custom Setup page in the installer warning that you need to.
Sysprep deletes drive letter mappings if your task includes customization If you choose customization options and the destination virtual machine fails at a 'Please Wait' screen after the second, sysprep reboot, you will need to rerun the import without customization. This problem occurs because of a problem with Microsoft's sysprep, which has deleted the drive letter mappings, preventing access to certain files.
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