How to correctly change the disk system to ESXi?

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Alexander Semenenko2016-12-20 09:30:53

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Alexander Semenenko, 2016-12-20 09:30:53

Hello!

We have ESXi, the system is on a USB flash drive, the vmfs storage is also local on the RAID controller. I need to swap all disks in RAID.

Can I copy to vSphere storage on Windows machine. Then raise a new RAID. In ESXi and on this new storage, throw your backup. And then transfer to the inventory, and turn on virtuals? Or could there be problems?

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CityCat4, 2016-12-20
@CityCat4

It's better to export machines rather than directly porting. Exported to OVF, then imported back. Although if nothing has changed except for the raid, you can transfer the machine folders stupidly, then throw them back and add them to the inventory. True, this back and forth backup will be a long story :)
And also check the disk after recovery - I had cases when a disk transferred back and forth in this way turned from "thin" to "thick".

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Ruslan Fedoseev, 2016-12-20
@martin74ua

Change all disks in a raid? change one by one. You pull out the first one, the raid goes into degraded, we change it to a new one, we are waiting for the raid rebuild, the next disk.
Yes, long. But nothing needs to be moved and turned off.
If the new disks are larger, it will be possible to increase the raid and, accordingly, the vmfs storage after replacing all the disks.