Migrating vCenter 6.5 on windows to appliance
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Does anyone have documented process how to perform such migration (6.5 -> 6.5)? Migration tool included with appliance will not migrate vCenter 6.5 to VCSA 6.5, it can only do earlier versions to 6.5. Has anyone actually done such migration? Or am I sol and have to wait for 7 to come out?
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Looks like you're correct.
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/01/vcenter-server-appliance-6-5-migration-walkthrough.html
I thought I had read that you could move from 6.5 -> 6.5.
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@coliver said in Migrating vCenter 6.5 on windows to appliance:
Looks like you're correct.
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/01/vcenter-server-appliance-6-5-migration-walkthrough.html
I thought I had read that you could move from 6.5 -> 6.5.
Yep, there's no horizontal migration option at the moment. But, you can see this is being worked on by a hackathon team at VMworld this year - https://blogs.vmware.com/code/2017/08/09/vmworld-hackathon-check-team-leads/.
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If your vCenter config is not terribly complicated, you could just deploy a new appliance. But I can certainly see how that would not be too fun.
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I guess I just have to wait and see.