How to move my vCenter to an another LUN?

[XTREM1337]

We can change, move, migrate, clone a VM without any problems.

My question is, how I could ''migrate'' my vCenter to an another LUN?

Does I need to shutdown my vCenter, use a PC with a Converter and Migrate my vCenter VM to a new LUN?

Or If I right click on my vCenter and I make a Clone to the new LUN, does is going to work?

I heard a lot of horror story when we trying to migrate the vCenter..

I have a vCenter server 4.1.0

thank

[Troy_Clavell]

to move the vCenter VM to another LUN, you can use Storage vMotion.  Assuming your source ESX(i) Host can see the destiation LUN, you just need to migrate--change datastore.

[XTREM1337]

for Storage vMotion with a online VM or watever, we need a licence, if we dont have the licence, we should tournoff the vm(vcenter)...So I can't do anything ...

[Troy_Clavell]

if you are not licensed for Storage vMotion, then your best bet is to power down the vCenter VM and use VMware Converter.

[XTREM1337]

I did a Clone of my vCenter, to a new LUN. When I powered on the Cloned one, everything work fine...without any issue...I thought that I might have a issue with the new LUN ID in the vmdk configuration...

[Troy_Clavell]

How did you clone you vCenter VM if it was powered off? Or did you do an online clone?  I would have done it with Converter, while the guest is powered off.  This way you avoid possible vCenter DB corruption.

Glad you got it working though!

[XTREM1337]

I did my clone with my powered on vCenter, as you know, we cant do anything with a turned off vCenter

Is why I was asking, how I could change my vCenter from LUN1 to LUN2.

The clone work very well, but I still dont know why is working fine because he still has the old LUN config in his vmdk....

[Troy_Clavell]

I understand what you did, but I just questioned why you decided to do it the way you did.

But, like I said, glad you figured it out.

[bulletprooffool]

Cloning your host is not really the solution, as you'll be creating a new VM.

You ESX will continue to operate without a vCenter in place, so all that you need to do is move the vmdks to another host and re-import.

Sure - storage migrate is an easy option  . . . if you

a) Have a vCenter

b) Are presenting both sets of storage to an ESX host

and/or c)  are licensed to the correct level.

My prefered solution . . Veeam's FastSCP.

http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp/download.html

Download . . connect to both ESX hosts . . and copy / move away like  you're a Windows GUI user.

Simply use the datastore browser after this an right click the .vmx file you have moved and select 'import'