6.0.2
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
Migration of vCenter Server with an
Embedded vCenter Single Sign-On to
an Appliance 6
You can migrate a vCenter Server instance with an embedded vCenter Single Sign-On to a
vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller appliance.
When you migrate from vCenter Server with an embedded vCenter Single Sign-On (version 5.5) on
Windows to vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller appliance, the entire
installation is migrated at the same time.
If vCenter Inventory Service, vSphere Web Client, vSphere Auto Deploy, or vSphere ESXi Dump Collector
are installed on a dierent machine than the source vCenter Server with an embedded
vCenter Single Sign-On, these components are migrated to the target vCenter Server Appliance.
Figure 6‑1. vCenter Server 5.5 with Embedded vCenter Single Sign-On Before and After Migration
Windows OS
vCenter Inventory Service
vSphere Web Client
vCenter Server
vCenter Single Sign-On
vCenter Server 5.5
with Embedded
vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5
vCenter Server Appliance 6.0
with Embedded Platform
Services Controller 6.0
Platform Services Controller
Appliance
vCenter Server
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.
The installer:
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Deploys a new target appliance.
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Exports the required les from the source vCenter Server.
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