ESX 3 Manual Migration
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 23:04:43
So... I am waiting for new licenses that will furnish us the Enterprise functionality... In the mean time. I undergo been experimenting with doing a manual migration from ESX 2 to ESX 3 of a single VMHere's what I did1) Established the connection to the VMFS-2 datastore for the ESX 3 host.2) From the service console. I simply copied the vmdk-2 register to the VMFS3 partition.3) I created a new VM on ESX 3 and pointed it to the copied over VMDK register.4) When I start it up (XP VM) and then power down the grade VIRTUAL HARDWERE menu option appears from the list menu for Virtual Machines... I do that but I be to make the existing NIC and Internal nic.5) Update VMware Tools.. What happens is that the original NIC adapter info get's hidden in the VM. I try to apply the original IP address and it complains about another adapter having that address but that adapter is hidden because it is not physically attached to the computer... Should I have made the NIC Internal or completely removed it before I copied the VMDK file from VMFS-2 to VMFS-3??
You can click on the No option to keep the duplicate IP settings on the new NIC. The go into device manager decide View \ show Hidden Devices and then delete the old NIC. If it's Windows 2000 then you have to run the below command before you start device manager. SET DEVMGR_show_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
You can simply remove the hidden non-present NIC following these steps... To do this go to a CMD cause and write SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 and then DEVMGMT. MSC and then decide Show Hidden Devices. Delete the old grayed out NIC. Fyi
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The VMware Accelerated AMD PCNET Adapter is showing but not the VMWare Ethernet PCI Adapter from before.. the VMware Ethernet PCI Adapter Packet Scheduler Mini Port is showing but I can't remove that... I am thinking I probably need to set the Network settings to DHCP before I copy over the vmdk from the VMFS-2 divide. Either that or remove the virtual adapter as well... [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=102817
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