Impact of changing the vCenter appliance IP address

[LeslieBNS9]

We are replacing our vCenter (Windows Install) with a new install of the vCenter Appliance. For many reasons we need to retain the same IP address of the old vCenter. I am staging the vCenter appliance and the time of cutover I am going to either 1) re-ip the appliance to have the old vCenter IP or 2) add a 2nd NIC with the same IP address as the old vCenter

Are there any caveats to either of these options? and which option would be best?

[antonmajor]

The most straight forward way is to deploy the appliance, configure it, remove the hosts connected to the windows vcenter, cutover the IP on the appliance, and reconnect all the hosts.

Let me know if this helps.

[smithar]

You can configure static IP for the new vCenter appliance. Please refer to Configure Network Settings for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance

[LeslieBNS9]

I know how to configure an IP address. I am just wondering if changing the IP address will cause any other issues that I may not be aware of.

[antonmajor · Accepted solution]

Not to my knowledge. You should be golden.