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- #VCENTER 6.5 UPGRADE FROM WINDOWS TO APPLIANCE PASSWORD#
- #VCENTER 6.5 UPGRADE FROM WINDOWS TO APPLIANCE LICENSE#
- #VCENTER 6.5 UPGRADE FROM WINDOWS TO APPLIANCE ISO#
Leave all the ports default if not modified earlier and click next. Provide your current SSO credentials i.e information indicates my embedded SQL express environment would be migrated to vPostgres environment.
#VCENTER 6.5 UPGRADE FROM WINDOWS TO APPLIANCE LICENSE#
Click Install.Īccept the License agreement and Click Next.
#VCENTER 6.5 UPGRADE FROM WINDOWS TO APPLIANCE ISO#
Mount the iso downloaded from VMware portal and follow the below procedure to proceed further.Ĭlick on vCenter server for windows.
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Let me help you further in providing a step by step process of upgrading your 5.5 windows vCenter to windows vCenter 6.5. I got this information at the end of the stage twoįinally, it completed the migration from Windows vCenter 6.0 to VCSA 6.Since 6.5 is already out in the market, you would obviously be looking forward to upgrade your environment. It will start the Migration wizard, there three main steps similar to the 6.5 migration Migration wizard will automatically power off the source virtual machine It will give you a Warning to the shutdown of the source Virtual Machine. Also, you can see the summary of the configuration selections in this window I hope, I don’t want to mention that you need to take a backup of the database before you start the migration and confirm that you have taken the backup in this stage. Tick or untick the CEIP selection according to your requirement and this is completely optional Migration process time will vary depending on the data set you select here You can perform this task later if you needĪfter validating the credentials select the migration data which you want to migrate from the old vCenter server. Provide the AD account credentials which has the privilege to add this appliance to the AD domain. In my case I have two networks connected to the source vCenter Server and it gave as a warning as it cannot add the network adapter as a part of the migration You can see the pre-Migration check results and errors and warnings can be seen in the window. Migrate Windows Based vCenter Server to VCSA 6.7 : Stage -2Īs similar to the previous stage nothing to do with the Introduction and just click Next Once it completed the Stage – 1 of the migration Continue to the Stage – 2 Just wait for the completion of the Stage -1 of the migration Review your settings and Click on Finish to start the deployment and complete the stage -1 of the Migration Provide the networking details and we need to have a temporary IP address as similar to the 6.5 Migration In a production environment I do not encourage to enable thin provision disks for your vCenter server Select the target datastore, I’m enabling thin provisioned virtual disks for my deployment. You can see the required resource size in the table Specify the deployment size, if you are intend to use the VCHA feature at least you need to select the size as small.
#VCENTER 6.5 UPGRADE FROM WINDOWS TO APPLIANCE PASSWORD#
Specify the Virtual Machine name and the the root password Specify the target vCenter or the ESXi host details and credentials Just verify the thumbprint in the next step If you are intend to use a different port please specify otherwise use default port Provide the source vCenter Server details, Migration Assistant will use the default port. Nothing to do with the Introduction Page, Just click NextĪccept the “Terms of the License Agreement”
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Select the Migrate Option, you can see a small self explanatory description under Migration tab Now login to another server in your network and mount the vCenter Server 6.7 ISO and go to the It is a two stage process and as the Stage – 1 it deploys the appliance and continue the configuration in stage – 2.įirst things first, I assume you already fully patched your Windows based vCenter server from the Operating System Patches, because running the Migration assistant will require the C++ 2005 redistributable binaries installed on the system otherwise migration assistant will fail the prechecks.ĭownload the vCenter Server 6.7 Appliance and mount it to the Windows based vCenter server (6.0) and run the Migration Assistant located in “VMware VCSA/migration-assistant” folder as shown in the below screen capture.Įnsure that there is no errors in the Prechecks of the Migration Assistant and you can start the Migration once you get the “ Waiting for Migration to start …” notification Migration of Windows based vCenter Server to VCSA 6.5 and 6.7 has no difference in steps, but I wanted show you the complete steps of the Migration so anyone can start and plan their migration without wasting time in their test labs. Migrate Windows Based vCenter Server to VCSA 6.7 From the Beginning (Stage -1 ) Note: Make sure to remove any older version of ESXi host profiles from your vCenter Server and that can cause the vCenter Server Migration failure at the middle of the Migration (Based on Personal Experience).