Building New vCenter

[ANorton]

I was wondering if there is any ill results of (re)building a new vCenter Server to replace my current one. Basically I want to build a new vCenter server with Windows 2008 and SQL 2008.

I have a very small VM environment so what are your thoughts?

Thanks

Aaron

[vmroyale]

Hello.

As long as you take the right precautions, this is a pretty safe operation. Check out kb 5850444 for all of the information on how to make it happen.

Good Luck!

[ANorton]

Could I just remove the ESX hosts, build a new vCenter server and then add the hosts again?

[Troy_Clavell]

Could I just remove the ESX hosts, build a new vCenter server and then add the hosts again?

yes, that will work as well. However, if you have any folder structure setup in your Virtual Machines & Templates View, that will be lost.

Following the KB that was pointed out earlier is great advise.

[vmroyale]

Sure, that would be an option as well.

[ANorton]

The vCenter doesn't do much right now except centralize my vm's I haven't used it for anything else as yet but I was getting the out of memory/cpu usage bug so I wanted to start with a fresh 4.0 build instead of the upgrade.