Integration of old Blades into New new Fabric Interconnects

Hi,
I have a task where I am expected to:
* Install Two new 6296 FIs., with two blade chassis and B200M3 Servers. These are all new equipment. All these equipment are at Location On3.
* Add two existing Blade Chassis comprising of B200M2 Servers from Location two into this 6296 setup. These two blade chassis at Location two are presently with their own 6124 FIs. We need to migrate the logical configuration, into the 6296.
* Add two more existing Blade Chassis comprising of B200M2 Servers from Location three into this 6296 setup. These two blade chassis at Location three are presently with their own 6124 FIs. We need to migrate the logical configuration, into the 6296.
* However location two can be thought of as the present Prod environment and Location Three as DR.
We need to have a minimum outage for Prod Site, as they are migrated from their present FIs to the new FIs.
I have been contemplating the below for this migration.
1- Install the new FI and blade chassis along with the Blades.
2- Upgrade the Firmware to the level at Location One as at Location Two ( Location two code upgrade to the latest is complete for both Infra and Blades ).
3- Restore a logical Config Backup from Location three to Location One.
4- Restore a logical Config Backup from Location Two to Location One - I will allow Overwriting as applicable.
Then I plan to tweak the configuration so that they can co-exist, mapping/configuring network and Storage ports.
The new blades will be an extension of the logical setup at Location two, as much as possible.
My questions:
Is this a workable plan ? Meaning, I plan to physically move Location two and Location three equipment only upon restoring of the Logical Config Backups. Are there any gaps that I hadn't discovered ? Any advice on this is much appreciated.
Note I have intentionally overlooked the option of upgrading the location Two, 6124s 6296, for there is a physical movement involved for those blades.
Thanks in Advance

So, are you trying to integrate location 2 & 3 into a common location? yes, a common new location, referred as location 1.
Are locations 2 &3 running the same firmware level and are the new Fabrics already upgraded to the same firmware level of the 6120's currently working? Yes.
If there is a third location where locations 2 & 3 will be integrated, is that location in the same data center/POD or the new location also involves moving to another physical location? No, it is a physically different data center
Are you using UCS Central? No

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