Migration of VMs vCenter 6.5 to vCenter 7.0

[virtualhelp]

Hello,

The deployment of a new vCenter belonging to a vxrail cluster with three nodes began. Both the ESXi and vCenter of the new vxrail cluster are 7.0.

The client has a productive vCenter with version 6.7 and ESXi with version 6.5, where all their virtual machines run. Now they want to migrate some VMs to the new vxrail cluster.

What options would you have to perform this migration from your vCenter 6.5 to the new VxRail cluster with vCenter 7.0.

Could you perform a vMotion accroos vCenter? For that I need to configure link mode?

If you can give me suggestions please.

[maksym007]

In case VM shutdown approved migrate VMs to NFS datastore and after that attach that Datastore to new vCenter. 

Or still use Linked Mode. 

[virtualhelp]

Hi maksm007

Thanks for your advice, I was reviewing the KB https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2106952 and indeed the vMtoion across vCenter feature is available starting with vSphere 6.X.

However, one of the prerequisites is that both vCenter instances must be connected with Enhanced Linked Mode and Enterprise plus licensing.

Therefore, to take advantage of the migration between vCenter instances, I must first configure Enhanced Linked Mode between vCenter 6.7 and vCenter 7.0 belonging to VxRail.