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Migration from distributed to standard switch with single uplink - seriously not possible ???

Hello Team,

I have 3 intel NUC servers managed by vcenter 6.7. Migrating to vcenter 6.7 now, i was able to remove all VMs from first server and just add to a new Vcenter 6.7 + install updates + move to distributed switch.

But now do have a problem: i have two servers with 1 uplink with many VMs running (including old+new vcenter) on the local storage. Those are in distributed switch on old Vcenter. Before i move it to new Vcenter i need to migrate it to a standard switch.

But it looks like there is no option to migrate to standard switch with a single uplink.

I could do it while migrating standard->distributed (migration of vmk0 + uplink at the same time), but opposite migration is not possible ?

What can i do now ?

Is the only option to shut down all VMs, boot ESX from console, reset network settings ? (this moves ESX into standard switch ?). Then boot both EXS, start both Vcenters and continue migration ?

(really painfull process for me)

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Michal

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