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vCenter Appliance to Physical server, 3 hosts, small environment

Greetings all.

I am trying to move a vCenter Appliance to a physical server.  It is a small setup with only 3 hosts.  I am somewhat new to VMware.  If I have to set up single sign-on again and add the hosts again, that is not a problem.  I do not have any clusters set up yet, it's a new installation. Actually there is a cluster but neither DRS nor HA is turned on.  I want to remove the cluster but not the hosts.  We have a small Windows 2008 R2 AD domain.  The vCenter Server is a member of the domain, as are the ESXi hosts.  It is version 5.5.

Is it OK if I simply remove the vCenter appliance by shutting it down and removing it from disk and inventory, and then install the physical server and add the hosts to it, delete the appliance server from AD and add the new physical server to AD, and set up SSO again on the new server - will that work?  Will I run into any issues/problems?

I should note that the reason behind my doing this is to implement vSA on the 3 hosts, and according to what I have read, I cannot run the vCenter appliance on a VSA host, and all 3 hosts must be VSA hosts if each one is to share its storage with the other 2. I also read that I cannot add any VMs to the hosts until the VSA cluster has been created.  So I need to ditch the current cluster and take the hosts out of it.  Only one host is still underneath the existing cluster.  So I am hoping that by performing those steps above that I can add my hosts to the new vCenter physical server once it's up and running, and just delete the old one.  If that is not the way to go about this, please point me in the right direction and you will be worth your weight in gold as far as I am concerned.

Thanks very much in advance,

Sam

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