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MikeErter
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Recreate dvSwitches and dvPortgroups on new vCenter

Hi Community,

We are planning on installing a new vCenter 5.5 to replace our old vCenter and then moving Hosts and Clusters to it.

Does anyone have any guidance or experience to share with regard to re-creating dvSwitches on the new vCenter?

Thank you!

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abhilashhb
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Do you have the DB installed on a remote SQL server? How about using the same DB for the new vCenter which will save your time in re-creating the whole environment.

Abhilash B
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vangoose
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You can use web client to export from old vcenter and import into new vcenter

VMware KB: Exporting/importing/restoring Distributed Switch configs using vSphere Web client

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