asked on Moving VCenter appliance and its external PSC from one host and storage to another host and storage
I have a 6.5 VCenter instance with 2 clusters in a DataCenter. The 6.5 instance is comprised of the VCA and an External PSC. Cluster 1, which currently contains and hosts the VCA/PSC was the "original" cluster with 3 hosts, and all VM's have been migrated to Cluster 2, which also has 3 hosts in it. So now all "regular" VM's have been moved and are running in Cluster 2, with the exception of VCA/PSC.
Cluster 1 hosts have shared SAS storage while Cluster 2 hosts have iSCSI shared storage.
I now need to move the VCA/PSC instances from the Cluster 1 host to a host on Cluster 2, so its both a host and storage change.
Once this is done, Cluster 1, its hosts and shared storage will be removed and decommissioned from VCenter.
What's the bet way to accomplish this? I have looked at article 2058684, but I don't know that it addresses the move from the shared storage on Cluster 1 to the shared storage on Cluster 2.
Cluster 1 hosts have shared SAS storage while Cluster 2 hosts have iSCSI shared storage.
I now need to move the VCA/PSC instances from the Cluster 1 host to a host on Cluster 2, so its both a host and storage change.
Once this is done, Cluster 1, its hosts and shared storage will be removed and decommissioned from VCenter.
What's the bet way to accomplish this? I have looked at article 2058684, but I don't know that it addresses the move from the shared storage on Cluster 1 to the shared storage on Cluster 2.
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tnisupport
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From what I've read so far, I need to actually shut down the Vcenter and external PSC instances in order to move them, so I won't be able to be logged into VCenter to actually do the move, which I believe is needed for doing the vMotion/Storage vMotion.
Unless I'm not reading correctly??
Unless I'm not reading correctly??
True.
One could login to a node of cluster two and import the VM's provide cluster 2 can see the storage on cluster 1.
See in the document under section - Registering Existing Virtual Machines in the VMware Host Client : https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/vsphere-html-host-client-18-guide.pdf?hWord=N4IghgNiBcIJYFsAOB7ATgFwAQDcFYDUBZAdzDQFMsAJFAZ2wGEI4KA7bANgDoBWEAL5A
Maybe that will help...
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I think that's part of my problem. Cluster 2 hosts don't have SAS connectivity to the Cluster 1 host's storage (iSCSI) and vice versa.
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Or am I missing something?