Migration procedure from 5 Foundation to 6U1 Essential Plus

[lrosa]

Hi,
I have a VMware Foundation 5 on a single host with 2 Windows servers (2008) (one of them with latest Veeam B&R) and 2 Linux servers.

I am setting a a new VMware 6.0 U1 Essential Plus on a 2-blades Dell VRTX.

By the end of the month I will copy all the VMs from the old installation to the new one with VMware Converter Standalone.

When I copy the VMs will I have to remove and re-add them to the Veeam jobs? Is this enough or there are some other things to do in this scenario?

As I understand, if I copy the VMs they gat a new ID and Veeam references the VMs via their ID

Thank you in advance


Ciao,
luigi

[PTide]

Hi,

Yes, VMs will get new IDs in your case which means that full backup will be performed during next run. Once VMs are moved to a new host, stop all existing VB&R jobs and reach our support team; they will apply the migration utility allowing you to bypass full backup cycle after migration. Thanks.

[lrosa]

Thank you for your answer.

A full backup is not an issue for me because I have plenty of storage.


Ciao,
luigi

[PTide]

A full backup is not an issue for me because I have plenty of storage.

Well, if you are ok with starting each and every backup chain anew then you can just re-add all VMs in all of your jobs.