3 Replies Latest reply on Sep 9, 2018 12:49 PM by daphnissov

Can you manually migrate vCenter Inventory?

Zewwy Sep 8, 2018 7:10 PM

Just wondering can you connect ESXi 5.5 host to vCenter 6.7?

if so, could you stand up a new vCenter server, and migrate the inventory so the VMIDs remain in tact. (At this point I'd disconnect each host form old vCenter and connect to new vCenter) in hopes the cluster and VM ID's stay in tact. I'm aware of the normal method, just trying to think outside the box.

1. Re: Can you manually migrate vCenter Inventory?

daphnissov Sep 8, 2018 7:12 PM (in response to Zewwy)

No, a 5.5 host cannot be joined to a 6.7 vCenter.
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2. Re: Can you manually migrate vCenter Inventory?

Zewwy Sep 9, 2018 12:43 PM (in response to daphnissov)

OK, what about manual migration of a host, lets say you already have 6.5 hosts, and a 6.5 vCenter, could you migrate the inventory data to a 6.7 host and un-join and re-join the hosts to the new vCenter while keeping VMIDs intact?
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3. Re: Can you manually migrate vCenter Inventory?

daphnissov Sep 9, 2018 12:49 PM (in response to Zewwy)

No, that also won't work. New morefs will be generated in vCenter's inventory for all managed objects. But, depending on what application you were interested in making use of those mappings, check with the relevant vendor because sometimes they have utilities that can be used to "repair" those object mappings (like Veeam, Zerto, others).
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