vCenter Migration from Windows-based vCenter to Appliance

[mkaetm]

Hi,

We are currently planning to upgrade our vSphere environment from 6.0 to 6.5 Update 1. During this phase we'd also like to migrate the existing vCenter to the appliance.

We need to change the hostname of the vCenter (due to other, non-VMware services, which are currently running on this server).

As we are also running a vRA environment (which is indeed connected to the existing vCenter Server), I would like to know what changes / tasks have to be done inside vRA in this case to ensure infrastructure vitality after the migration of vCenter.

[daphnissov]

Changing of the host name mid-conversion is not supported. And since you have vRA, it's definitely not something you'd want to do. Do you have resources already deployed with vRA? If so, what types and how many?