I have a customer that has 3 ESXi 5.0 hosts and a vSphere cluster with Standard licensing. These 3 hosts connect to an EMC SAN via iSCSI.
I have a new UCS Chassis with 3 blades and a new EMC SAN connecting via Fiber Channel.
What is the best way to accomplish a migration to the new cluster with minimal downtime?
I just did this recently for a customer (3 new hosts and new SAN but they had enterprise licensing and I didn't build a new vSphere).. That customer also was using iSCSI on both old and new SANs.. I just added an iSCSI connection on each of the 3 new hosts to the iSCSI switch on the old environment and then the 3 new hosts saw both old and new storage.. But again, they had enterprise licensing..
I was planning on adding an iSCSI connection from the new UCS chassis to the iSCSI switch of the "current" SAN but unsure of what route to take after that..
I can build my new vSphere 6 on the new hardware.. I would then get the full functionality for X days.. However, I can't add one of the existing hosts because they wouldn't have storage motion..
I'm sure this has been done many times.. If someone can provide the best route to take on this I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks