I need to transfer live VM's from an old MD3800 to a new ME4024 is there any help out there.

Hello Steve,

There is no documentation for a data migration.  What you will want to do is to have the ME4 and the MD3 on separate VLANs.  They can be connected to the same switch.  You will want to follow the deployment guide for ME4 as well as the best practice guide for VMware.  Here are the links to those guides.

 

Deployment guide

https://dell.to/2F6GW1K

 

VMware Guide

https://dell.to/2Gz4E77

 

https://dell.to/3cZAaY9

 

once the volumes are presented to each host, you can move things around at the datastore / VMWare OS level.

vSphere, Hyper-V or something else.

When speaking about vSphere. When using the swISCSI within ESXi the MD3 is configurred without Binding. You must configure ME4 in the same way. For sure you can use a different Subnet or just pick up some free IPs. But i never work with a ME so i dont know if its a Storage which have all ports within one subnet or different ones. The ESXi can only support one (Binding or non binding type) at the same time.

So yes you can connect the ME to the same pSwitch and present LUNs to the ESXi and create a new Datastore. Than you can use svMotion to migrate all VMs from the old Datastores to the new one. If you have only Essentials licenses you have to shutdown the VMs otherwise you can migrate VM while up and running.

If you have 2 or more Servers around you just need one to connect to the ME4 and the other ones use the old MD3. With enhanced svMotion you can move around from one Host to another. This is the lower from the 3 migrate option within vCenter.

Regards,
Joerg

Hi Joerg, thanks for the reply.

 

Steve

Many thanks for the confirmation, its the solution I thought was best.

 

Steve