Hi. I have some ESXi v5.5 clusters attached to vCenter windows v5.5. for various reasons including needinag to move this vCenter to a new location we need to move these hosts to a new vCenter while keeping vms running.
We already have our new vcsa 6.5 installed and we have moved some clusters with standard switches only to this vcsa simply by disconnecting fom 5.5 vCenter and adding as new host to vcsa 6.5.
However we are now to the clusters that have distributive switch. The mgt port is a standand switch though. I was told I could do the following to do this. But I have no test environment. Will this work?
1. Import vds 5.5 switch into new vcsa 6.5
2. Disconnect host from vCenter 5.5
3. Remove from inventory on vCenter 5.5
4. Add dost to vcsa 6.5
5. Add host to the vds that was imported
6. May need to delete stale vds object
my original method was to convert all hosts and vms to standard switches. I rather not.
Thankyou for any information. Thanks,,,
