Removing an ESX Server from VC

[chriswheeler]

I want to move VC off of my workstation and install it on a server. When I click remove it prompts me with:

"Removing a computer resource will also remove all of itsvirtual machines and resource pools. Are you sure you want to do this?"

Am I correct to assume it means it will just remove them from Virtual Center and they will still be intact on the ESX server? Thanks.

[dmorgan · Accepted solution]

Yes, you are correct. You will need to back up and restore the VC database on to the new VC server, or you can re-import the ESX servers, and VM's, and re-create resource pools if you don't have a complicated setup. Uninstalling VC will not remove VM's from ESX servers.

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[chriswheeler]

Thanks for the info. I just wanted to confirm it before I went through with it.

[postmaster]

hello. I have some ESX to disconnect from a Virtual center (2.0.1) and to reconncet to a new fresh installed VC 2.5 with new database.

I had yet moved some one without problem (just after the reconnection I must restart mgmt-vmware services to be able to reconnect the hosts).

Now I have some other who has in network configuration different vlans configured and running VM connected to these vlan network. Are these configurations stored into the ESX and then when I reconnect these ESX, VC re read my network configuration ??

thanks