Hello everyone, I inherited an ESX 4.0 server located in a server farm where are running 9 VMs .
Specifically are 4 Linux (Centos 5.9 and Ubuntu 6.06) and 4 Windows (3 2003 and 2008) plus an XP with vCenter Server.
The storage in an internal DAS in VMFS3.
I should migrate it to a more recent hardware with internal storage, but above all to a newest hypervisor that supports win2012 or new Linux distros
As these virtual machines are in production for hosting services, mail, dns, etc, I would like to ask some VMWare gurus which is the best way to achieve this, with the lowest hold time and data security.
On this server I have a gigabit network card for the management console, one for internet publishing and one unused.
I have read that Veeam Quick Migration could copy VMs from one host to another, or need I temporarily put a NAS to transfer VMs from old ESX4.0 and then show them to the new one?
Can vMotion works from esx 4.0 to esx 6.5 (or 6.x, or 5.x)?
Thank you so much for the help you could give me