So I’m in the middle of an upgrade of environment that has;
- 2 x Hosts on ESX 4.0
- SAN using SAS connections to Hosts
- No resources available for failover and testing
- Limited network ports
I’m installing;
- 3 x Hosts on ESXi 5.5
- Nimble SAN – iSCSI
So to move all the virtual machines from the SAS SAN to the Nimble, I need to move the VM’s whilst turned on,
I’ve setup the iSCSI networking on the ESX host,
- Creating VMKernal ports with IP addresses,
- Mapping a VMNIC to each VMKernel directly
- Setting MTU size to 9000
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