Move the VMs from cisco UCS 220 /240 to BE7000M

[Sudoooo]

1.How to Move the VMs from  cisco UCS 220 /240 ( DC 1)  to  BE7000M ( DC2 ) without impact  

2.Pre-requests & Risks

3.Any impact /downtime

[Jonathan Schulenberg]

Assuming the platform details (eg hostname, IP address/mask/gateway, DNS, NTP, etc) aren’t changing it should be as easy as shutting the VM down and then  export/Import it across hosts. Downtime will depend how your environment is configured (eg whether each product and all of it’s dependencies are properly configured in a clustered/redundant fashion).

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/uc_system/virtualization/virtualization-software-requirements.html#vmware_features

[Sudoooo]

CUCM/Unity/PLM are version 10.5.2.12901-1 (in clusters # 7 server)
VCS is version X8.7 ( one VCS e and VCS c # 2 )
Conductor is version XC4.1
TMS version is 4.2(4.23).
Vista Point is version 4.4.68.0
EOL on the C220 boxes is 12/31/17.All
UCS ESXi 5.1.0 1065491 All but below UCS C220 ESXi 5.5.0 2068190
Everything was built from the Cisco ova file .

Option 1 : same IP ,all servers move to BE7M X2 from UCS 240 & C 220 .one in DC other one in DR

Option 2 : move all UC server to BE7 M and change IP of all server with DC IP segment.

Option 3 : move UCS 240 /220 box to DC without IP change
Option 4 :move UCS box to DC and change the IP

[Jaime Valencia]

You want to start by saying exactly what products you want to move, and not just VMs.

Also, if you have clusters, or not.

[miket]

Jamie, how are you/. I have same issue I need to move a CUCM Pub, Unity Primary and CER from be7k to a b200 and wonder if there is a guide or anything that will help.

MIke

[Jaime Valencia]

Options are (review compatibility per product in virtualization wiki):

DRS

vMotion

Migrate via shared storage

cold migration, whether it's vMotion, download the files from GUI to a middle man, or directly moving files between servers (via CLI with SCP)

copy/clone VM, and then move with any of above options

We only have documentation for DRS, all other options are VMWare options/features and you'd need to refer to their documentation.

EDIT: product specific:

CUCM, a PCD migration to the same release ONLY if you're using 10.x release. For other releases you forcefully need a higher SU/ES.

CUC, use COBRAS