Cross vcenter migration Error

[gferreyra]

Hi guys. Cut to the chase.

I can MIGRATE VMS from vCenter 6.7 to vCenter 7, without any issue.

Same vDS (v6.6) on both. Same portgroups.

BUT, i cannot do the reverse. vCenter 7 to 6.7.

With the MOUSE, yes, no problem. (Check the capture)

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## vCenter source and destination

$vc_sour = connect-viserver vcenter1 -User user -Pass pass

$vc_dest = connect-viserver vcenter2 -User user -Pass pass

## VM

$vm = get-vm vmtest -Server $vc_sour

## ESX 

$esx_dest = Get-cluster Production -Server $vc_dest | get-vmhost | get-Random

## Datastore 

$ds = "DatastoreX"

$ds_dest = Get-datastore -Name $ds -Server $vc_dest

## Network

$netsour = Get-NetworkAdapter -vm $vm

$netdest = @()

$netsour | foreach-object { $netdest += Get-VirtualNetwork -Name $_.NetworkName -Server $vc_dest }

## MIGRATION per se

$vm | Move-VM -Destination $esx_dest -Datastore $ds_dest -NetworkAdapter $netsour -Network $netdest -Confirm:$false

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ERROR:

move-vm : 23/9/2022 19:13:10 Move-VM The operation for the entity "vmtest" failed with the following message: "vCenter does not support hosts of this type ( )."
At line:1 char:1
+ move-vm -VM $vm -Destination $hodest -Datastore $dsdest -NetworkAdapt ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Move-VM], NotSupportedHost
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_TaskServiceImpl_CheckServerSideTaskUpdates_OperationFailed,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Comm
ands.MoveVM

What does it mean?

ANY HELP PLEASE???

[gferreyra]

No one has ever done cross vcenter migrations? 😞

There has to be a simple error/conception on the script, but i can't figure it out !

IT WORKS ONE WAY, but NOT THE OTHER!

[gferreyra · Accepted solution]

Absolutely solved. One of the vcenters is a multihomed one. Problem with secondary IP address.

If your vcenter's have only 1 IP, no problem. Works perfect.

Cheers!

[HanzoL0]

So this should copy the DataStore and other contents from one ESXi host to another? I'd like to do this using Terraform or Ansible toolstacks, but I will test this method, thanks!

[scott28tt]

Your post needs moving to the correct area, so I have reported it to the moderators.

[kn_wno]

You found the problem, but what is the solution? How do you handle a multihomed vcenter?