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11 Select how to upgrade vCenter Agent and click Next.

Option Description

Automatic

vCenter Agent is upgraded on all hosts in the vCenter Server inventory.

Manual

All hosts are disconnected from vCenter Server. To upgrade vCenter Agent,

reconnect the host to vCenter Server.

Select this option if one of the following applies:

You need to control the timing of vCenter Agent upgrades on specific

hosts.

The number of hosts in the vCenter Server inventory is large, and you

anticipate that upgrading vCenter Agent on all hosts would negatively

affect vCenter Server performance.

vCenter Agent is installed on each host in the inventory to enable vCenter Server to manage the host.

vCenter Agent must be upgraded when vCenter Server is upgraded.

12 Enter the password for the vCenter Service user account.

13 Either accept the default destination folders or click Change to select another location, and click Next.

The installation path cannot have commas (,) or periods (.).

NOTE To install the vCenter Server on a drive other than C:, verify that there is enough space in the

C:\WINDOWS\Installer folder to install the Microsoft Windows Installer .msi file. If you do not have enough

space, your vCenter Server installation might fail.

14 Enter the port numbers to use or accept the port numbers shown and click Next.

The port numbers displayed are those that were backed up from the source VirtualCenter or vCenter

Server installation.

15 Select the amount of memory to allocate to the vCenter JVM in Tomcat, according to the number of hosts

in your environment.

You can adjust this setting after installation if the number of hosts in your environment changes.

16 Click Install.

17 When the vCenter Server installation finishes, click Finish.

The data migration tool restores the backed up configuration data.

18 Check the \logs\restore.log file in the datamigration folder, and verify that no errors occurred during

the restore process.

vCenter Server is installed, and the settings that you backed up are restored. The remote database is upgraded.

After the installation is complete, vCenter Server is started.

If you used the data migration tool to back up VMware vCenter Update Manager configuration data, the

vCenter Update Manager installer is launched. Complete the steps in the installation wizard to install vCenter

Update Manger and restore the configuration. See the VMware vCenter Update Manager documentation for

more information.

If you used the data migration tool to back up VMware vCenter Orchestrator configuration data, the vCenter

Orchestrator installer is launched. Complete the steps in the installation wizard to install vCenter Orchestrator

and restore the configuration. See the VMware vCenter Orchestrator documentation for more information.

What to do next

If the new vCenter Server machine has a different name than the source machine, update plug-ins and

other solutions that access the vCenter Server system with the name of the new machine. See “Update the

vCenter Server Name for Plug-Ins,” on page 43.

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