Migrating vCenter Server 6.0U2 for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5U1 - Supported?

[beefy147]

Hello

I was told that in order to carry out a supported migration from vCenter Server 6.0 for windows to vCenter server Appliance 6.5 U1 I need to be on 6.0U3 (currently on 6.0U2)

I cant find any documentation to support this extra hop in the upgrade process. can anyone advise?

Thank you

[MohamadAlhousse]

Dear beefy147​

This is supported if you are currently running vCenter 6.0 U2 as per the below:

VMware Product Interoperability Matrices

Regards,

[beefy147]

Thanks but this is the "upgrade" path and I want to do a migration. is using the migration tool while upgrading counted as "upgrade"?

[Yuva_1990]

Hi

If you migrate from 6.0 to 6.5 basically a new appliance will be deployed and data will be copied over.The old server will be powered off.In our case migration and upgrade is technically the same

Regards

Yuvaraj

[ashwin_prakash]

Would like to add to the above information, this link below would help you understand the process of the Migration/upgrade from Windows VC to VCSA.

How to Migrate from vCenter for Windows 6.0 to vCSA 6.5