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Hello,

I have a licensed ESXI (5.0) box with vsphere 5.0 that I need to physically move to a new location. I am afraid that if I shut her down and move it that something may not come back up correctly. Does anyone know a way to backup the actual VMware configuration in case I shut it down move it and something does not come up correctly? I am looking for a free solution.

Thank you

Eryk1138

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If nothing but the physical location is changing (IP staying the same) then you should be fine.

If you are changing IPs too the only thing you will need to do is change the vMotion and network ports once loaded.

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Hi Rod,

Thank you for your reply. I was more worried about a hardware failure or something like that. I have Shadow protect on all the VMs but have no way to backup the vmware client itself.

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If it is installed on a USB or SD card remove it during the move, if it is on a RAID set, such as a mirror, you have one disk you can take out and clone

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Yea no raid, just one big storage pool

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ESXi is not on SD/USB but it’s part of the local storage pool?

ESXi should be on SD/USB for boot device.

You shouldn’t need it, but here is a guide

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/2239-how-to-backup-the-esxi-host-configuration-or-how-to-make-your-life-easier-in-a-few-easy-steps

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Yea I walked into this sys admin role and did not get any instruction from the last guy. No USB or SD card, just the server. Cool thank you for the guide.

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Get Veeam

Sandbox and try migration w/out shutting down initial host

Migrate (still scheduling a maintenance window)

@Veeam_Software

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