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
External vCenter Single Sign-On to
an Appliance 7
You can migrate a vCenter Server with an external vCenter Single Sign-On to an appliance.
When you migrate from vCenter Server with an external vCenter Single Sign-On (version 5.5) on Windows
to vCenter Server Appliance with an external Platform Services Controller appliance, you migrate in two
steps.
1 First you migrate the vCenter Single Sign-On instance from Windows to an appliance.
2 Next you migrate the vCenter Server instance from Windows to an appliance.
I Concurrent migrations of vCenter Single Sign-On instances are not supported. You must
migrate the instances in a sequence. If you have multiple vCenter Single Sign-On nodes, rst you must
migrate all vCenter Single Sign-On nodes to Platform Services Controller appliances before you start the
migration of vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance.
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.
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