Hello All!
I'm trying to accomplish the following and having a hard time finding good documentation on the process:
We currently have a vCenter 6.0 implementation, with 1x vCenter Appliance and 1x External PSC Appliance. I would like to be able to try slowly cutting over the environment to a new vCenter 6.5 and External PSC configuration, so that I do not have to lose the configurations i've already setup. The issue I have with doing a upgrade, is the VCSA 6.0 I currently have setup is not stable, has some weird log truncating errors and support has advised to just build a new VCSA. Does anyone have any resources I can use to try migrating our environment with no downtime to vCenter 6.5?
Your help is greatly appreciated, and if for some reason this was easily obtainable i'm sorry up front as I found upgrade guides and migration guides that seemed to be geared more towards in-place upgrades and not migrations of settings to a new Appliance and External PSC Server, thanks!
Thanks!
Hi BattleNerd ,
From my understanding, upgrading to vCenter 6.5 shouldn't be destructive to your current environment.
A couple of useful links:
vCenter Server Appliance Installer will create new VMs for PSC and vCenter and copy data across from the initial environment. Then it will shut down the old machines.
What I would recommend you to do is:
In any case, vCenter Server Appliance Installer has built-in pre-checks that will assist with the health issues. If PSC and vCenter pass those tests, there shouldn't be a problem to succeed with the upgrade.
Good luck and let us know about the results.
Cheers
Hi BattleNerd ,
From my understanding, upgrading to vCenter 6.5 shouldn't be destructive to your current environment.
A couple of useful links:
vCenter Server Appliance Installer will create new VMs for PSC and vCenter and copy data across from the initial environment. Then it will shut down the old machines.
What I would recommend you to do is:
In any case, vCenter Server Appliance Installer has built-in pre-checks that will assist with the health issues. If PSC and vCenter pass those tests, there shouldn't be a problem to succeed with the upgrade.
Good luck and let us know about the results.
Cheers
And one more link - vSphere 6.5 Upgrade Considerations Part-2 - VMware vSphere Blog
VMware has just announced the availability of vSphere 6.5 Topology and Upgrade Planning Tool that should help with the migration decisions - Announcing the vSphere 6.5 Topology and Upgrade Planning Tool - VMware vSphere Blog.
roman79, thank you for all the replies and help this was a huge assistance, cheers buddy! I'll be doing my upgrade next week but this will keep my head above the weeds.
Not a problem, BattleNerd. Just let me know if any questions arrise during the migration phase.
And if you satisfied with my contribution, I appreciate you marking my answer as correct. Thanks!
Hi Roman. The steps for migrating to VCSA 6.5 with embebbed PSC from vCenter 6.0 (windows installation) w/ external PSC are similars?
Thanks!
Hi clsalgueiro,
Thank you for asking this question.
It sounds a bit tricky, as I believe VMware does not support this type of migration - Overview of Migration from vCenter Server on Windows to an Appliance . At least, I wouldn't be able to find any article or KB for this scenario.
However, I would try the following:
I can check if it works in my home lab and let you know the results during the weekend.
Thanks Roman for your answer, I will try it on my lab at first. But if give me some issues i will let the PSC external, is not mandatory to be embedded.