New ESXi host, migrate

[Patflat]

Hi!

We have an ESXi 7 host with some VM on and want to replace it with a new host with ESXi 8.
We have Veeam backup & Repliaction Enterprise 12.3 on a standalone server.
The backup is going to a NAS, and then out to a cloud backup.

I want to migrate all my VM to the new ESXi host but without losing the backupchain.

Not sure what method that I should use.
Can anyone here please give me som input what path is the best way to go?

We rather not start from the beginning with all our backups.

[PetrM]

Hi Patrik and Welcome to Veeam R&D Forums!

If you have a vCenter server and add VMs to jobs through the vCenter object tree, there is no need for any additional manipulations because all the VMs have references (moref-ID) at the vCenter level. It does not matter which ESXi hosts they are running on from the perspective of our configuration database.

However, if you do not have vCenter, a VM that is migrated to another host is considered a new object and is saved with a new reference in our database. In this case, the only option is to start a backup chain from scratch.

Thanks!