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ESXi 4.1 -> 5 / VMFS 3 -> 5 migration and live Storage vMotion

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Hi Community!

 

I'm looking at migrating VMs  from 4.1 to 5 and then storage vmotioning them from old VMFS 3 to VMFS 5 datastores.

 

If the old VMFS 3 datastores are presented to the new ESXi 5 hosts (4.1 can't see VMFS 5 datastores) -

 

will we be able to migrate using "Change Host and Datastore" (or do the storage vmotion as a last step)?

 

In other words, can we storage vmotion if the old hosts can't see the new datastores- is it enough that the old datastores are seen by the new hosts?

 

We don't want to have to power off the VMs for the storage migration.

 

Thanks!


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