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Upgrading/Migrating vCenter 6.0 to vCenter 6.5
Currently I am running vCenter 6.0 on a windows Server 2012. with 3 ESXi 6.0 Hosts running in an HA configuration
I would like to move these three hosts to vCenter 6.5 on a windows Server 2016.
I have already installed windows 2016 and installed vCenter 6.5. I have not applied any license's yet.
I'm looking for the steps I should be taking.
I have moved all Virtual machines off of one of my hosts . I was thinking of disconnecting it from the existing vCenter and then adding it to the new vCenter. is that a good plan. or do I keep the Virtual machines on the host and running and then connect to the new Vcenter ?
We are not looking to move to the vCenter appliance at this time.
Thanks for any information and best laid plans
I would like to move these three hosts to vCenter 6.5 on a windows Server 2016.
I have already installed windows 2016 and installed vCenter 6.5. I have not applied any license's yet.
I'm looking for the steps I should be taking.
I have moved all Virtual machines off of one of my hosts . I was thinking of disconnecting it from the existing vCenter and then adding it to the new vCenter. is that a good plan. or do I keep the Virtual machines on the host and running and then connect to the new Vcenter ?
We are not looking to move to the vCenter appliance at this time.
Thanks for any information and best laid plans
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Seth , that is great news, I was hoping that to be the case. So I should probably get my new vCenter full y up and running and adding licenses and installing update manager and then just disconnect from 6.0 vcenter and connect to new 6.5 vCenter.
any other gotchas, I should be looking out for ??
Andrew, understood. we were going back and forth on which to choose, and we heard with the appliance you may need a little Linux knowledge. we have many projects going on and thought since we are comfortable and know the windows version to stick with it this go around. we are freeing up many Windows licenses already so holding onto one more is less of a concern at this time. Thank you
any other gotchas, I should be looking out for ??
Andrew, understood. we were going back and forth on which to choose, and we heard with the appliance you may need a little Linux knowledge. we have many projects going on and thought since we are comfortable and know the windows version to stick with it this go around. we are freeing up many Windows licenses already so holding onto one more is less of a concern at this time. Thank you
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Thank you all, very helpful
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Thanks again
WHY?
You are now far better off using VCSA 6.5 Appliance....rather than wasting a license on 2016, and also putting up with all the issue you will have in the future, when patching 2016, breaks vCenter Server.
Migrate to 6.5 Appliance.
Once you have then got 6.5 Appliance, use Update Manager to Update ALL your Hosts safely and easily.