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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Migration
- Contents
- About vSphere Migration
- System Requirements for Migrating vCenter Server Deployments to vCenter Server Appliance Deployments
- vCenter Server Appliance Requirements
- vCenter Server Appliance Hardware Requirements
- vCenter Server Appliance Storage Requirements
- Software Included in the vCenter Server Appliance
- vCenter Server Appliance Software Requirements
- vCenter Server Appliance Database Requirements
- vSphere Web Client Software Requirements
- Required Ports for vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller
- Pre-migration Checks
- Known Limitations
- Preparing for Migration
- Moving Update Manager to a New Host Machine When Migrating vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance
- Synchronizing Clocks on the vSphere Network
- Preparing vCenter Server Certificates for Migration
- Preparing vCenter Server Databases for Migration
- Prepare Managed ESXi Hosts for Migration
- Install the Client Integration Plug-In
- Required Information for Migrating vCenter Server and vCenter Single Sign-On from Windows to an Appliance
- Migration of vCenter Server with an Embedded vCenter Single Sign-On to an Appliance
- Migration of vCenter Server with an External vCenter Single Sign-On to an Appliance
- After Migrating vCenter Server
- Troubleshooting
- Index
4 Change the value of vpxd.certmgmt.mode to custom if you intend to manage your own certicates, and
to thumbprint if you temporarily want to use thumbprint mode, and click OK.
5 Restart the vCenter Server service.
Install the Client Integration Plug-In
You must install the Client Integration Plug-in before you migrate to the vCenter Server Appliance.
Prerequisites
“Download the vCenter Server Appliance Installer,” on page 36.
Procedure
1 In the vCenter Server Appliance installer, navigate to the vcsa directory and double-click VMware-
ClientIntegrationPlugin-6.0.0.exe.
The Client Integration Plug-in installation wizard appears.
2 On the Welcome page, click Next.
3 Read and accept the terms in the End-User License Agreement and click Next.
4 (Optional) Change the default path to the Client Integration Plug-in installation folder, and click Next.
5 On the Ready to Install the Plug-in page of the wizard, review the information and click Install.
6 After the installation completes, click Finish.
Required Information for Migrating vCenter Server and vCenter Single
Sign-On from Windows to an Appliance
The vCenter Server migration wizard prompts you for the deployment and migration information when
migrating a vCenter Server instance or a vCenter Single Sign-On instance from Windows to an appliance. It
is a best practice to keep a record of the values that you entered in case you must power o the appliance
and restore the source installation.
You can use this worksheet to record the information that you need for migrating a vCenter Server instance
with an embedded vCenter Single Sign-On, vCenter Server instance with an external
vCenter Single Sign-On, or an external vCenter Single Sign-On from Windows to an appliance.
I The user name that you use to log in to the machine from which you want run the GUI
installer, the path to the vCenter Server Appliance installer, and your values including the passwords, must
contain only ASCII characters. Extended ASCII and non-ASCII characters are unsupported.
Local OS users existing on source Windows machine are not migrated to the target
vCenter Server Appliance and must be recreated after migration is complete. If any local OS user names are
used to log in to the vCenter Single Sign-On, you must recreate them and reassign permissions in the
Platform Services Controller appliance.
If the source vCenter Server machine is joined to an Active Directory domain, the account you use must
have permissions to rejoin the machine to the domain. For more information, see
hp://kb.vmware.com/kb/2146454
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