Migrating vCenter from 5.5 Windows to 6.0 Appliance and keeping new IP Address/Hostname

[mzsaad]

hi folks,

we are planning to move from vcenter 5.5 windows to vcenter 6.0 appliance.

VMware has a migration which puts a temporary IP address on the new 6.0 appliance. The new appliance goes and pulls everything from the existing 5.5 windows deployment. In the end, it shuts down the windows vcenter, changes it own IP and becomes the VCSA 6.0 in production.

my question is, can we keep the temporary IP address and a new hostname in the new appliance?

the way we have the datacenter laid out, we would have to deploy the VCSA 6.0 deployed in a different server. Once, the VCSA is deployed, we might not be able to keep the old IP address/hostnname in the new machine.

thanks in advance.

[Vijay2027]

Once vc is migrated to 6.0 you can either change IP or hostname depending on PNID

VMware Knowledge Base

I'm not entirely sure on how to identify PNID in vc 5.5 but you can check in registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> SOFTWARE -->VMware, Inc --> VMware Infrastructure --> VMware VirtualCenter --> VCInstanceId.

Also check : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> SOFTWARE -->VMware, Inc --> VMware Infrastructure --> VMware VirtualCenter --> Install --> Computer_FQDN.

/usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vmafd-cli get-pnid --server-name localhost --. To check PNID on vcsa 6.x