Naming the VCSA appliance 6.5

[jprovine7]

Does the name of the appliance, when it is deployed using the migration-assistant and installed, have to start out with a different name from the original Window vcenter server? Does the name of the original Windows vcenter server get migrated to the new vcenter 6.5 appliance? 

[Yuva_1990]

Hi

The FQDN of the newly deployed Vcenter server appliance would be same name as that of the original windows server

Regards

Yuvaraj

[daphnissov · Accepted solution]

Yes, name it something separate. When the migration occurs, as one of the last phases it will pull in the host name of your Windows-based vCenter and assume its identity.

[a_p_]

The only name that changes is the virtual machine's name in the inventory, and it's file names, because the need to be unique.

OS internal properties (the hostname etc.) are migrated to the VCSA.

André

[jprovine7]

daphnissov - man you know everything   you have to enter an temp name like you do a temp IP in order to allow the data migration

[daphnissov]

Yes, and once that migration is complete, that temp information is discarded and replaced with the entire identity of your Windows vCenter.