Migrating an existing Platform Service Controller to Load Balanced Platform Service Controller Cluster

[haroonh]

Hi

We are running an environment with vcenter with external primary service controller and because of the expansion looking to migrate that to having a VCenter HA pointing to load balanced Platform Service controller cluster. I have looked online and found a document which is related to a new environment or if you have an existing setup to do the upgrade,

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/53661

As it is a production environment so we would like to migrate the existing environment and wouldn't like to go for a new VCenter and PSC

Could anyone please suggest if there is a way that we could repoint our existing Vcenter to load balanced Platform Service Controller cluster.

I have tried the following steps but it fails on the certificate installation

--  Created a new Platform Service controller and joined to the existing domain

--- but when replacing the certificate on the new platform service controller following the document above, it fails.

As the above document is for a new or upgraded environment, could be the reason it is not working.

I really appreciate your time and help

Kind Regards

Haroon

[sjesse · Accepted solution]

PSC are going away, I wouldn't bother, once you upgrade to 6.7 you can migrate back to an embedded

External Platform Services Controller, A Thing of the Past - VMware vSphere Blog

. To that end, we are announcing the deprecation of the external PSC deployment model. In a future vSphere release (not update release), there will no longer be an option to deploy the external PSC.

[haroonh]

Thanks for the information,

Do you know  if needed how can we repoint an external PSC to the load balanced cluster of PSCs .if there is a document available for that, would be really appreciated.

At the moment we have a following setup

1- VCenter  joined to a External PSC with enhanced mode enabled to another VCenter. both using the same external PSC

and would like the following ether of the following.

--- either moving the External PSC behind a load balancer with another PSC.

--  repointing the Existing External PSC to newly build cluster of PSCs behind the Load balancer

I tried to do the following to achieve that

deployed a new PSCs and joined them to SSO domain while deploying but when I try to do the Certificates needed for the load balancer configuration. but it fails on that and wont change the machine certificate