Hi,
We currently have a single vCenter 4.1 server running on a VM with a local SQL express 2005 instance. We would like to end up with a single vCenter 5 server running on a VM with a local SQL 2008 R2 instance.
To get there we are proposing to do something like this:
How does that sound as a plan please?
Is the current 'step 4' at the right point in the process?
How exactly should 'step 6' work?
Any advice much appreciated.
Cheers.
IP address should be different and hostname as well for the new vCenter VM.
The plan sounds good but I would suggest you to go with this.
After 3 point, carry out with point #5, once you build the VM and install the VC5.0 setup and export the database, have a different IP set to new VM for some time. Access the New vCenter, all the entries will be remained as it is in disconnected state, on each host right click and say connect.
After you done for all the ESXi hosts.Make sure all the VMs are running fine.
Then think of decommision the VC4.1 server.
Regards
Santosh K
This will have detailed steps for migrating you environment - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-501-upgrad...
Hi ManofmilkUK
Welcome to the communites
Its sounds good, if its live server first take backup of all the thing so that incase gose wrong we can bring back to old state.
While implementing new one provide same information like instance name and host name and other parameters .
Do we need to have the new vCenter have the same servername and IP as the old one do you think?
IP address should be different and hostname as well for the new vCenter VM.
Followed the plan and with the exception of a few bits of twiddling to change credentials and import the SSL certificates etc everything has gone well.
Thanks for the advice all :smileygrin:
@Mano,
Good, Any problems faced during the upgradation process ?
Hi Santosh,
The things that 'took us by surprise' were all very minor and did not hold us up at all:
Otherwise the process followed was pretty much as planned and went smoothly, the only real difference is we moved the shutdown of the old vCenter to be a bit later in the process: we have a 2 host cluster in a separate datacenter that forms our test/dev environment and we left the old vCenter online until the new one had taken full control of these 2 hosts.
Cheers.