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We want to move a esxi 5.0 vm server to a physical box. If anyone has done this migration I would love some tips.<\/p>","upvoteCount":3,"answerCount":7,"datePublished":"2015-06-15T16:45:41.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"albertcalef8785","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/albertcalef8785"},"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"
I would suggest you look at Double-Take Move (for minimal downtime migration), or use any full system backup with bare metal restore to dissimilar hardware - Unitrends, Acronis, Storagecraft, etc.<\/p>\n
the key is going to be making sure the software handles the hardware and driver differences required for your physical box<\/p>","upvoteCount":3,"datePublished":"2015-06-15T18:31:21.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/has-anyone-moved-a-esxi-vm-back-to-a-physical-box/412020/3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"dave-scale-computing","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/dave-scale-computing"}},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"
We want to move a esxi 5.0 vm server to a physical box. If anyone has done this migration I would love some tips.<\/p>","upvoteCount":3,"datePublished":"2015-06-15T16:45:41.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/has-anyone-moved-a-esxi-vm-back-to-a-physical-box/412020/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"albertcalef8785","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/albertcalef8785"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
did it once as a test.<\/p>\n
-full backup with system state (windows native)<\/p>\n
-install clean OS and restore.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2015-06-15T16:49:46.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/has-anyone-moved-a-esxi-vm-back-to-a-physical-box/412020/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"alexakselrod","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/alexakselrod"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Albert - Dave is spot on. A dissimilar BareMetal restore will probably be your best bet for this migration. With Unitrends, it’s super easy to do, but does require a paid license so that you can perform a BareMetal backup & a file level backup. Please let me know what questions you may have about this.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2015-06-15T18:39:11.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/has-anyone-moved-a-esxi-vm-back-to-a-physical-box/412020/4","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"katie-unitrends","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/katie-unitrends"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
We typically recommend moving workload content (can be done with RoboCopy to preserve file rights & owners) and provisioning new server. V2P is tricky and never works really well.<\/p>\n
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We want to move a esxi 5.0 vm server to a physical box. If anyone has done this migration I would love some tips.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2015-06-18T08:20:53.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/has-anyone-moved-a-esxi-vm-back-to-a-physical-box/412020/5","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"kooler-starwind","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/kooler-starwind"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
End up doing a whole new build and just moving software<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2015-06-18T10:08:30.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/has-anyone-moved-a-esxi-vm-back-to-a-physical-box/412020/6","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"albertcalef8785","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/albertcalef8785"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Thanks for the update Albert!<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2015-06-18T10:54:50.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/has-anyone-moved-a-esxi-vm-back-to-a-physical-box/412020/7","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"katie-unitrends","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/katie-unitrends"}}]}}