Migrating Existing VM's to VxRail

I would say you can purchase migration service from dell emc.

Thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately this is not an option.

Our company has gone through many Migrations before transferring from one hardware platform to another and we've not had to pay anyone or buy additional software to do this.

If the response is that it is not technically possible to migrate using native VMware tools, I'm going to consider this as a major limitation on VxRail's part, and a shame considering the cost.

Thanks and please, more/better/technical responses that don't have me spending additional money.

ALB

Technically, there is no supported procedure unless you have external VC.

If you use external VC, you can migrate VM from one to the other.

But if you use internal VCSA, it is not supported to add other hosts into internal VCSA cluster.

And it is also not supported for internal VCSA to join external PSC.

So, you cannot vMotion by any supported method.

There is a nice article about vMotion between different SSO

https://www.ivobeerens.nl/2017/10/11/vmotion-two-vcenter-servers-different-sso-domains/

But this is also not supported by VMware.

Thanks again for your response.

Again, the plan is not to add external hosts to the VxRail Cluster. I'm assuming however that I can add them to the DataCenter that houses the VxRail cluster, either as standalone hosts in the VxRail Datacenter or create a separate from VxRail Cluster object in the VxRail Datacenter and place them into this new Cluster. This off course means that they will no longer be managed by the old vCenter server.

From this point, I can then carry out a vMotion without shared Storage from old hosts to VxRail cluster.

I've seen similar help topics on this subject in this forum suggesting this direction. I'm simply looking to firm up what I've read prior and seems fairly doable.

Thanks again,

ALB

VMware created a really cool "fling" that allows you to do exactly what you are asking - vMotion (live) between different vCenter servers in different SSO domains.  I used it to migrate about 65 TB of VMs "live" from an old vCenter to a new VxRail vCenter with excellent success.  It is a free tool, NOT supported by VMware, but works great.  Basically it is a nice GUI wrapper around the PowerCLI/API commands that support this cross-vCenter vMotion feature.  Check it out:

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/cross-vcenter-workload-migration-utility

Bill

You can installe Veeam Backup & Replication as trial version and make the migration via replication. You have a short down time.

Hi,

I'm also in the process of migrating VMs from traditional SAN to VxRail/vSAN environment. I have found following resources to be useful.

Migrating to vSAN

https://storagehub.vmware.com/export_to_pdf/migrating-to-vsan

Migrating Workloads onto vSAN - YouTube

Hello,

I had the same question when I moved to VXRAIL.

I didn't got a real answer so I figured it out myself and it is easy.

Use "Vmware Converter" take the VM offline on the old environment, and move it offline towards the new vxrail.

I know it is not a online migration but it was the only thing that worked for me.

We had a really old environment with iscsi that needed to be moved towards the VSAN.

Before moving enable EVC on the vxrail.

Regards,

Kurt