Specifications

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

complete the steps in the Update Manager installation wizard to install vCenter Update Manager and

restore the configuration. See Installing and Administering VMware vSphere Update Manager.

19 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.

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 57.

If a license server was installed on the source machine, install the license server on the destination

machine and migrate the licenses. See “Migrate a License Server Installed on the Same Machine as

vCenter Server,” on page 57.

See “After You Upgrade vCenter Server,” on page 61.

Update the vCenter Server Name for Plug-Ins

When you migrate the vCenter Server configuration to a destination machine that does not have the same

name as the source machine, you must update the plug-ins to use the new machine name. Plug-ins

registered to the vCenter Server system cannot access the destination vCenter Server machine until this

update is complete.

Procedure

1 Open the extension.xml file for the plug-in in a text editor.

The extension.xml file is located in the folder for the plug-in in C:\Program

Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\extensions\. For example, the extension.xml file

for the vCenter Storage Monitoring plug-in is C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter

Server\extensions\com.vmware.vim.sms\extension.xml.

2 Edit the contents of the <url> tag to replace the name of the source vCenter Server system with the

name of the new vCenter Server system.

For example: If the new server name is vcenter.example.com, the <url> tag might read

<url>http://vcenter.example.com:80/sms/smService-web/health.xml</url>.

3 Save the extension.xml file.

4 Re-register the extension with vCenter Server.

Migrate a License Server Installed on the Same Machine as vCenter Server

If the license server was installed with vCenter Server on the source machine, the data migration tool cannot

migrate the license server to the destination machine. You must migrate the license configuration manually.

Prerequisites

If you do not have the license server installer, download it from the VMware Web site.

Procedure

1 Install the license server on the destination machine.

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