Relocate vCenters SQL Server to different Hardware

[esnmb]

I have two clusters.  One is AMD and another is Intel.  We are trying to retire the AMD blades but I am getting to a point where I need to move the SQL VM that hosts the vCenter DB.

How would I be able to do that since vcenter will be down since the SQL server needs to be powered off to move from AMD to Intel? I would imagine I need to remove it from inventory then just connect to an Intel host directly and re-add it to inventory?

Any better way?

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

....I would imagine I need to remove it from inventory then just connect to an Intel host directly and re-add it to inventory?

That is probably the easiest and quickest approach

[weinstein5]

If it is on shared storage that is exactly what you will have to do - remove from inventory on the AMD host and readd it to the Intel host

[esnmb]

Figured that would be the case.  Just wanted a sanity check.

Thanks all.