Change the old infrastructure to VMware vSphere 4.1

From this post, I try to present my projects with "How to do the project" and "Tips" for doing that. I hope it is going to be useful.

The first project:

Project title: Change the old infrastructure to VMware vSphere 4.1

Project Place: Razavi Hospital, Mashad, Iran

Project Admin: Saman Salehi

Project infrastructure:

·        We have HP DL380 G5 and HP DL380 G6 servers and a SAN.

·        ((We call HP DL380 G5 "Server1" and HP DL380 G6 "Server2".))

·        In one of them, "Server2", the strategy is one application, one Server and we have web server.

·        Another one "Server1", is a ESXi 3.5 Host and have two virtual machines, FTP and application Server.

·        None of them are connected to SAN.

·        We need an Active Directory and do not have any free server.

·        We need to change the application server's OS.

Project Plan:

·        Use P2V to convert the web physical server to virtual machine.

·        Install the ESXi 4.1 on Server2 (call it "ESX1") and connect to SAN, and reconvert the web server to ESX Host.

·        Transfer FTP virtual server from Server1 to ESX1 and uninstall the ESXi 3.5.

·        Install ESXi 4.1 on HP DL380 G5 (call it "ESX2") and create two virtual machines for application server and Active Directory.

In next post I will learn how to do that.

See you.