Hi, I am new to vcenter server, we had trouble running the migration assisant on my 5.5 vcenter server running ln a Windows vm. We were attempting to migrate to a.6.5 vcsa.
Since the migration is failing support said a new 6.5 vcsa would be fine. Here are the steps we want to make, does a anyone forsee any issues?
We want to have no down time, we have 40 vms and 4 hosts running esxi 5.5
1) disconnect the Windows vCEnter Server network card as to remove it from the nextwork
2) deploy the vcsa 6.5 with embedded psc with the same FQDN/IP
2a) delete the AD computer for the Windows vsphere-server from AD
2b) joined the vcsa 6.5 to AD (SSH to the new vcsa 6.5 and run: /opt/likewise/bin/domainjoin-cli join domainusernamehere passwordhere
2c) reboot vcsa 6.5
3) The new vCSA 6.5 will be on evaluation license. You may upgrade the license from vCenter 5 to vCenter 6 from the my.vmware.comportal
4) apply the vcenter 6 license
5) create new datacenter
6) create new cluster
7) add esxi host 1-4 in
7a) enable vSphere HA
😎 add in the vmware admins group for permissions at vcenter level.
