VMware Virtual

Infrastructure Migration
From Version 5.5 to Version 6.7

Iwan Kurniawan & Haikal Shiddiq

Technical Consultant

6 Novermber 2019

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What’s New
Impact vSphere 6.0
vCenter Server
• 64-bit OS required
• 1000 hosts per vCenter Server
• 10,000 powered-on virtual machines
• 15,000 registered virtual machines
• 64 nodes per cluster
vSphere 6.5
vCenter Server
• 64-bit OS required
• 2000 hosts per vCenter Server
• 25,000 powered-on virtual machines
• 35,000 registered virtual machines
• 64 nodes per cluster
vSphere 6.7
vCenter Server
• 64-bit OS required
• 2000 hosts per vCenter Server
• 25,000 powered-on virtual machines
• 35,000 registered virtual machines
• 64 nodes per cluster

Efficiency, Hosts Hosts Hosts

increased • 480 logical CPUs • 576 logical CPUs • 768 logical CPUs

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
Improved Management
• 64 host clusters, 6000 virtual
machines per cluster
• vSphere vMotion enhancements
• vSphere vMotion across vCenter
instances
• vSphere vMotion across virtual
switches
Control, • Long-distance vSphere vMotion
improved • VMware Platform Services
Controller™
productivity
• Common services for VMware
vCloud Suite®, includes SSO,
certificate and licensing
• Enables Enhanced Linked Mode
• vCenter Server Appliance - Same
scale as Windows-installable vCenter
Server (1000 hosts and 10,000
virtual machines)
• Content Library
vSphere 6.5
Improved Management
• vSphere vMotion enhancements
• Encrypted vSphere vMotion
• vSphere Update Manager built into
the vCenter Server Appliance
• HTML5 Web Client now included
• vCenter Server Appliance includes:
• Backup/restore built in
• Native high availability
• Increased scalability of Linked Mode
to 15 vCenter Server instances, 5000
ESXi hosts, and 50,000 powered-on
virtual machines
vSphere 6.7
Improved Management
• Cross-vCenter Encrypted vMotion
• Single Reboot – Dramatically reduce
upgrade times by skipping a host reset
• vSphere Quick Boot – Reduce
patching and upgrade times by
rebooting the
• ESXi™ hypervisor without rebooting
the physical host, skipping time-
consuming
• hardware initialization
• Fully Featured HTML 5 based vSphere
Client
• vCenter Server Appliance includes:
• Backup/restore built in
• Native high availability
• Full REST APIs for Backup and
Restore
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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)

2. Shutdown existing vCenter Server 5.5

3. Deploy New vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) v6.5 Update 3

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)

8. Monitoring migration process until finish

9. Check on VM which migrated to (4xM640 with ESXi 6.5 Update 2) on OS and Apps & DB Side.

10. Monitoring process of VM at 1 Month

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Migration Procedure – (Cont’d)
Step Detail on VMware Side :

11. Shutdown an existing (4xM630 with ESXi 5.5)

12. Create new cluster on new vCenter Server 6.5 update 3

13. Upgrade new vCenter Server 6.5 Update 3 to 6.7 Update 3.

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.

16. Check Functionality of VM Prod.

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VMware Compatibility Matrix

Source Link : https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php#interop&2=&1= 8

Thank You !