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Infrastructure Migration
From Version 5.5 to Version 6.7
Technical Consultant
6 Novermber 2019
scalability • 4096 virtual CPUs • 4096 virtual CPUs • 4096 virtual CPUs
• 12 TB RAM (6 TB in 5.5 U2) • 12 TB RAM • 16 TB RAM
• 1024 VMs per host • 1024 VMs per host • 1024 VMs per host
Virtual Machines Virtual Machines Virtual Machines
• Up to 128 CPU vSMP • Up to 128 CPU vSMP • Up to 128 CPU vSMP
• Multicore vCPU (support for nVidia • Multicore vCPU (support for nVidia • Multicore vCPU (support for nVidia
Grid) Grid) Grid)
• Up to 4 TB RAM • Up to 6 TB RAM • Up to 6 TB RAM
• Up to 62 TB VMDK • Up to 62 TB VMDK • Up to 62 TB VMDK
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What’s New (2)
Impact vSphere 6.0 vSphere 6.5 vSphere 6.7
Storage Storage
Storage
• vSAN 6.0 • vSAN 6.7
• vSAN 6.6.1
• VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes™ • vSphere Virtual Volumes
• vSphere Virtual Volumes
• NFS 4.1 client • VM encryption
• VM encryption
• NFS and iSCSI IPv6 support • 1024 Fibre Channel devices per host
• 512 Fibre Channel devices per host
• SIOC IOPS reservations • 64 virtual disks per PVSCSI controller
• 16 virtual disks per PVSCSI controller
• VMware vSphere Replication™ • 4Kn HDD drives
Enhanced
Network Network Network
• Network I/O Control (NIOC) Version 3 • Network I/O Control (NIOC) • vmxnet3 version 4
Efficiency, • Ability to reserve bandwidth of a Version 3 • RSS for UDP
increased VMNIC • Ability to reserve bandwidth of a • RSS for ESP
perform- • Ability to reserve bandwidth for a VMNIC • Offload for Geneve/VXLAN
ance VMware vSphere Distributed • Ability to reserve bandwidth for a • Native Driver Support for Mellanox
Switch™ port group vSphere Distributed Switch port Hardware that support 40 and 100
• SR-IOV support for 1024 virtual group gigabit per second speeds over
functions • SR-IOV support for 1024 virtual InfiniBand, iWARP, and RoCE:
• Multicast snooping functions • ConnectX-3 EN
• Multiple TCP/IP stacks for vSphere • Multicast snooping • ConnectX-3 Pro with VPI
vMotion • Multiple TCP/IP Stacks for vSphere • ConnectX-4 with VPI
vMotion • ConnectX-5 EN
Compute Compute Compute
• Virtual Machine Hardware Version 11 • Virtual Machine Hardware Version 13 • Virtual Machine Hardware Version 14
• Instant clone
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What’s New (3)
Impact vSphere 6.0 vSphere 6.5 vSphere 6.7
Improved Management Improved Management Improved Management
• 64 host clusters, 6000 virtual • vSphere vMotion enhancements • Cross-vCenter Encrypted vMotion
machines per cluster • Encrypted vSphere vMotion • Single Reboot – Dramatically reduce
• vSphere vMotion enhancements • vSphere Update Manager built into upgrade times by skipping a host reset
• vSphere vMotion across vCenter the vCenter Server Appliance • vSphere Quick Boot – Reduce
instances • HTML5 Web Client now included patching and upgrade times by
• vSphere vMotion across virtual rebooting the
• vCenter Server Appliance includes:
switches • ESXi™ hypervisor without rebooting
• Backup/restore built in the physical host, skipping time-
Control, • Long-distance vSphere vMotion
• Native high availability consuming
improved • VMware Platform Services
Controller™ • Increased scalability of Linked Mode • hardware initialization
productivity
to 15 vCenter Server instances, 5000 • Fully Featured HTML 5 based vSphere
• Common services for VMware ESXi hosts, and 50,000 powered-on
vCloud Suite®, includes SSO, Client
virtual machines
certificate and licensing • vCenter Server Appliance includes:
• Enables Enhanced Linked Mode • Backup/restore built in
• vCenter Server Appliance - Same • Native high availability
scale as Windows-installable vCenter • Full REST APIs for Backup and
Server (1000 hosts and 10,000 Restore
virtual machines)
• Content Library
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Migration Procedure Detail
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Migration Procedure
Step Detail on VMware Side :
1. Disable High Availability (HA) on Cluster Existing (4xM630 with ESXi 5.5)
4. Configure New vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) (use existing IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default
Gateway of old vCenter Server)
5. Add host (4xM640 with ESXi 6.5 Update 2) to New vCenter Server
6. Add existing host (4xM630 with ESXi 5.5) to New vCenter Server
7. Doing migration with vMotion of VM on (4xM630 with ESXi 5.5) to new (4xM640 with ESXi 6.5 Update 2)
9. Check on VM which migrated to (4xM640 with ESXi 6.5 Update 2) on OS and Apps & DB Side.
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Migration Procedure – (Cont’d)
Step Detail on VMware Side :
14. Migrate VM Prod to another ESXi 6.5 Update 2 to perform doing upgrade on each ESXi 6.5 Update 2.
15. Check Functionality of vCenter Server, ESXi Host after doing upgrade.
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VMware Compatibility Matrix