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Dear colleagues, I have a problem. I set up an infrastructure with 3 ESXi 6.0 host (old hardware) configured in a cluster with VSAN, using a vCenter 6.7 (VCSA with Embended PSC). The problem is that vCenter is installed locally on a Windows computer as a VMWare Workstation VM. Now I need to migrate the vCenter (Workstation VM) to this new infrastructure with the 3 clustered hosts. I tried using the VMWare migration assistant, but it seems to me that it only works when the source vCenter is installed directly on Windows and not as a VMWare Workstation VM. Does anyone have any tips on how to do this migration?
Live long and prosper,
Marcelo Magalhães
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Try to migrate you Windows vCenter to vCenter appliance in VMware Workstation. Make a backup.
Install new vCenter with the same config at vSAN Cluster. And after that start restore/ recover process on this vCenter from old one.
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Hi,
To migrate a VM from VMWare Workstation to an ESXi or vCenter, the VM must be turned off. So there is no way I can migrate the vCenter that is installed on the VMWare Workstation with it being turned off, because I would have to migrate it to itself (the explanation was confusing), because it controls the Cluster and if it is turned off, there is no way I can access the Cluster.
I don't know if I can migrate a VM directly to one of the Cluster's ESXi hosts without using vCenter. It would be an option.
I also thought about doing a new installation of vCenter directly on the Cluster and then doing a backup/restore of the current installation on VMWare Workstation for this new installation. But my fear is that this won't work, as I can't put the ESXi hosts inside a new cluster, as they are already in an old cluster.
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Hello
Your case you can using vCenter converter for this (v2v). Remember backup before action. After converted you can stop vCenter on workstation & start vCenter on vSAN.
Regards,
Duy
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Problem solved! There is no way to migrate to vCenter with it turned off. So I migrated the VM with the VCSA directly to one of the hosts that is part of the cluster, then I registered the VM with the VCSA. All right now!!!
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Excellent job Marcelo.
Moving the (V2V) in the cluster.
Then start with off & On to both respectively.
Regards,
Mohamed.