how to migrate vShield to another vCenter?

[crodrigues]

I have a vCenter 5.1 infrastructure with 2 ESXi 5.1 hosts and vShield implemented with 2 Edges.

I need to migrate this 2 ESXi hosts to a new vCenter 5.5.

Migrate the hosts is not the problem, my question is: how I migrate vShield Manager, Edge, etc to the new vCenter (vShield Manager was already upgraded to version 5.5.x)?

[RaymundoEC]

I think you can not make a clean migration whatever it takes since you need to have the old vShield manager to register in the new vCenter server, then you must need  take all rules and settings from old vShield manager to a new one recently deployed and register in new vCenter Server, taking from that your virtual networks and such (assuming they don't change) will work again.

Try to get a backup from older vShield Manager and decant over new one.

hope this helps!

+vRay

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Best approach is to export your existing firewalls and rules from the first vShield Manager. Setup a new one within the new location. Import all the firewall rules into the new vShield Manager. You may have to fix up your networks on the firewalls however.

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Edward L. Haletky
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