If you are using full virtual machines you need to follow below proceedure.-- It is not a perfect workaround and would tedious job in case of large pool with and user ownership.
- From view manager, delete the the pool -- it will ask delete from view manager <or> delete from disk - proceed with delete from view manager only.
- Now pool configuration will be removed leaving all the VMs in vCenter server.
- Now connect any ESX server from new vCenter server to this vCenter server.
- Migrate all the VMs to new esx and new datastore.. (If the same datastre is visble in new vCenter server you may probably unregister those VMs from source vcenter server and register in destination vcenter server)
- New create a Manual pool using existing VMs from new vCenter server
- If the old pool was a dedicated pool, make note of those VM-to-User assignments and apply those user ownership manually. There are UI options to do this manually inside the pool inventory.
Pease be aware that your automated full clone pool in old VC become a Manual Pool in the new VC
Hope this helps.
Best Regards
Siva
