vmotion the virtual center ?c

[zeevik]

Hi.

I wish to move the virtaul center (hosted on a shared storage) to another ESX host in its cluster.

Is it possible to vmotion the virtual center ?

Any special operations required for that ?

Thanks,

Zeevik.

[vmroyale]

Hello.

You can VMotion it around just like any other virtual machine in the cluster. There is nothing different about it at all.

Good Luck!

[weinstein5]

As stated by the other poster you can vmotion the vCenter VM with out a problem

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[AndreTheGiant]

I only suggest to make the VMotion when no other vCenter tasks are running.

And wait that is finished before make a new task.

Just to speed up the VMotion process.

Andre

[bulletprooffool]

Zeevik, you can do this - it is fully supported - though I'd take a little extra care.

Verify that the Portgroups in use exist and are fully functioning at the destination.

Make sure to select 'High Priority' when processing the failover.

Other than that - should be pretty easy.

I'd suggest moving it when the console is not being heavily used - but I wouldn't stress about it - if your VC went down, all the ESX functions do continue to work (HA etc)

[zeevik]

I did not get to make the migrate yet, as the old host and the name are not compatible with CPUs, and are not in the same cluster (butin the same data center)

my current way of operation is to:

1) copy the VC VM files to the new ESX host's storage.

2) add it as a new VM (browse datastore and add through the vmx file)

3) verify it is up and running with no IP address

4) power off theold VC VM

5) Power on the "new" VC vm with the correct IP address

Any reason for that not to work ?

Zeevik.