Best practise to migrate a virtual disk to a new host

[eisback]

Hi, we want to migrate a virtual disk with file shares from a Windows VM (Windows Server 2016) on an ESXi 6.5 host to a new ESXi 7.0 host. There already exists a Windows Server 2019 VM. What is the best approach? To simplify the migration I would prefer a replication if possible. Thanks! Nico

[HannesK]

Hello,
so your idea is to replicate the Server 2016 to ESX 7 and then attach the disk to the new server?

From a Veeam side, that works. Out of scope from Veeam side is the migration of the share permissions. That's a Windows configuration topic. Internet search tells me, that it's still the same registry approach I used 15 years ago.

Best regards,
Hannes

[eisback]

Hi, no I don`t want to replicate the whole 2016er VM ... I only want to copy / replicate a certain virtual disk with the data partition from this 2016er VM to a another ESXi host and then I want to attach the copied / replicated virtual disk to a new 2019er VM ... thanks!

[HannesK]

Hello,
that would work with exclusions of unnecessary disks.

The disks are always replicated to a new VM. So you need to detach / attach manually during the migration. I recommend testing it with a small machine.

Best regards,
Hannes