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papahendo31
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Migrate a windows vcenter 6.0 server to vcsa 6.0

Ok so in all my planning I never discovered that you cannot use the migration assistant to migrate a winddows vcenter 6.0 server to vcsa 6.0.  It needs to be an upgrade form vcenter 5.5. 

Has anybody found themselves in this situation?  We cannot go to 6.5 and need to get onto an appliance asap.  Please lets not focus on the circumstances that got me here but a possible solution.

I am thinking Install a new vcsa and I can move my hosts to the new appliance.  Its a pretty simple configuration but the vcenter database is on an external SQL server and I was hoping to reuse the DB to avoid completely redoing everything. 

Thoughts or advice?  Thanks to all

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daphnissov
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Immortal

Not possible, you'll just have to move hosts over and recreate objects.

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mc1903cae
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Just out of interest what is blocking you from migrating to a 6.5 VCSA?

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papahendo31
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It an incompatibility with some hardware and part of the storage. This is not our core infrastructure but an aging piece that will be going away eventually. 

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mc1903cae
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What version/build are the ESXi hosts currently running and is this the latest version of ESXi that the server & storage hardware supports?

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a_p_
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It an incompatibility with some hardware and part of the storage

It's not vCenter Server which needs to be compatible with the physical hardware, it's only the ESXi hosts. As long as the used ESXi version/build supports your hardware, and the new vCenter Server version supports the ESXi version you may upgrade/migrate to vCSA 6.5.


André