ESX 3.5 migrate vcenter to another server

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• How to migrate a virtual VC server to another host ESX with different CPU ID

  Hello

  by updating my equipment VI 3.5 of old AMD Single Core of AMD Quad-Core a problem has occurred: the new CPU´s of course have a different CPU - ID, so it is not possible to do a live migration of my virtual server VC from the old machine to the new one.

  A migration cold is of course not possible, because after the stop server vc I ve no connection via VC Management Console... of course

  How can I get my VC-virtual server running on new hardware, I guess that there must be a solution and I hope I m not the only one, who runs a virtual VC server and must change the material

  I look forward to any possible solution, thank you very much.

  Heinz Kabisch

  If the VCVM is on the only shared storage remove the virtual machine from the old host and enter it on the new host by connecting the VI client to each host. TO register to browse the store of data and right click the .vmx file and click Save

  If not on the shared storage (but I hope it is) you can copy the files from the virtual machine (*.vmdk and.) VMX file) from one host to another using the SCP. Then connect to the new host using the VI client and enter the VM VC

• Update/migration - vCenter Server 5.0 on windows-> vCenter Server Applicance 6.0.0 U2?

  Hello, I'm trying to upgrade vSphere for a customer of 5.0 to 6.0.0 U2. I don't foresee any problems with the upgrade of the host, but I'm having a terrible time to vCenter Server upgraded. SSL problems, inventory Service won't start/db issues, etc. This is a very simple configuration with only two hosts, a DS3524 for the shared storage and a vCenter server running on a windows virtual machine. I am simply considering implementation installation vCenter's existing disposal and replacement with a new device. What, exactly, would I lose, do this? vMotion, HA and DRS is put to the top, but nothing fancy or automated.

  Thanks in advance.

  -arthur

  Because your environment is small, I think that a better option is really build a new vCenter from scratch and then guests are leaving the former vCenter to the new... of course, you will lose all historical data (statistics, task, events) of the old host and you will need to re - create clusters on the new vCenter configurations.

  Here is a KB showing how to move an ESXi to one vCenter to another: VMware KB: move a managed ESX ESXi host to a vCenter Server to a different Server vCenter

• Problem migrating Vcenter server from the old cluster to the new cluster?

  Hey guys,.

  Just came across this situation, and I don't know what to do. I pass my vcenter server older glomerulus with hosts of esx4.0, to a more recent cluster with hosts of esxi4.1. The material of host machines are different generations, and vmotion don't migrate vcenter because of the cpu sets between cluster mismatch. If I could turn off the virtual machine and migrate it would work, but since it's my vcenter Server I can't do.

  Should I restore it on the new cluster?

  Thanks for the suggestions/tips

  Kevin

  Connect directly to the ESX host using your client vsphere, vCenter vm shutdown, vCenter remove inventory, then go to the new host, browse the data store on the vCenter vm is, and add the vCenter Server inventory.

  This assumes that the same storage is presented to both hosts.  If this isn't the case, you will need to use winscp or something similar to copy the files from the virtual machine.

  -KjB

• vCenter is virtual server - how to upgrade ESX host?

  Our vCenter server is a virtual server.  I've been thinking how to run update manager on the host ESX, vCenter is sitting on.   The only thing I can think of is to use the VMware Converter stand alone app and move the vCenter server to another ESX host and then start vCenter / Manager Update on the new ESX host to update the original ESX host.

  Is there an easier way?

  you have a shared storage?  If so, go to the host computer running the vCenter VM on, turned off, make a note of the data store that it is, remove the inventory, go to another host, browse the data store, find the vmx file, right-click "add to the inventory.

  .. .or you can use VMware Converter to move the VM vCenter.  Another way would be to turn off the VM vCenter and do the upgrade using the CLI interface.

  Post edited by: Troy Clavell - missed a step (out of stock)

• bi12c migrate data from one server to another server

  Hello!

  I have 2 servers bi12c - dev and the prd.

  Dev-server, I did several analyses, dashboards and other components.

  How can I migrate all the components of the dev-Server to prd-server?

  I know a method - move files out of the way

  .. / Oracle/BI/user_projects/Domains/bi/bidata/service_instances/SSI/Metadata/content/Catalog/root/Users

  This path on another server by hand

  But I think that it is an incorrect method.

  Hello

  You speak only on catalog of the web objects can't you just archive them on one side and Unarchive on the other? Using the OBIEE interface or the Catalog Manager.

  As you say you're not supposed to 'touch' directly the web catalogue at the file system level...

• vCops on another server vCenter Server

  Hello

  It is possible and feasible too running on another server vCenter Server Foundation vCops and point it to one you want to listen to? We have vCenter servers in our environment, but I want to follow the one who is widely used, but want to install vCops on the environment of vCenter which use less. This is a possible solution and environments are connected over a WAN via Tunnel PTP.

  Hello

  In my view, there no problem on the vCops tip to an another vCenter. Just make sure on the network connectivity and vCenter should be accessible via the network.

  Also you can read the document deployment vCops on this topic.

• The steps required to perform a migration to a new server vCenter using distributed switches?

  We are currently on version 5.1 of vCenter and ESXi 5.1 on all our guests.  We use a vDS on our current server vCenter and will need to migrate to a new server vCenter soon.  Is there a documentation about the steps to migrate to a new server vCenter using switches distributed?  We hope to achieve this goal without any downtime.  The problem is that we need that VDS on our 10GB network for the aggregation of links.  If having to migrate guests at standard switches before moving them to the new vCenter server, there will be problems of network performance.

  Because information about your environment are stored in the database of vcenter al you should just be able to stand up the new vCenter server and that it points to the existing database

• Migration vCenter database of the local instance to a remote server

  Hello

  My vCenter database is installed on the local server with the vCenter server.  When installing without DSN was created because the local database.  Now, I need to create a dedicated server to host the database but can't find where, in the current installation, I would like to change to vCenter point to the new location.

  I read these KBs

  KB.VMware.com/kb/7960893 - movement of the SQL Server to vCenter database
  KB.VMware.com/kb/5850444 - migration vCenter Server on a different host machine
  KB.VMware.com/kb/1003928 - troubleshooting the database data source used by the VirtualCenter Server

  Problem is that (1) there is no DSN, (2) the registry key is not there either, and (3) I cannot find what to change in the vpxd.conf file

  I am able to "migrate the database" and "can create a new dsn to point to the new location.

  So, the question is where can I find the current configuration of the database\dsn.

  I hope that's clear

  Hi VMGenie,

  The reason why it does not appear THAT DSN u is because your machine VC can be 64-bit and the vCenter uses 32-bit DSN settings.

  Open the C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe folder for this exe... it should show u the DSN settings.

  Please consider clicking correct or helpful if this information is useful.

• Vcenter replacement with another server?

  Hi, I have a client who has there VCenter server as a physical box on windows xp.  The box was funny for a while acting, needs to be restarted often.

  There are only 3 hosts ESXi with HA installation, nothing really more than that.

  So I was planning just on VCenter running on a virtual machine with windows server 2003.  I don't want to convert the physical area more because he has all these problems, so I want to do a new installation.

  I was hoping I could just install a fresh VM on VCenter, then simply add the ESXi hosts for it.  Is it as simple as that.

  I don't to lose performance data.  HA is easy to configure again.

  So what happens when I try to add an ESXi host that already belongs to another server Vcenter?  Im hoping it let me know and just made me add a new and Rob configurations such as the old HA off the server information.  Is that what happens?

  Hoepfully that makes sense.

  Thank you

  Mike

  Mike,

  First of all, Remove your old VC ESXi server. If you don't like that, this box is of course out of cluster. So adding the same server ESXi in another VC and configuration HA & DRS is not warn and do not threaten you.

  The above suggestion is reserved when you don't care HA configurations and performance data.

  Happy installing!

  Thank you

  Ganesh

• vCenter DB moved to another server - missing jobs?

  Hello.

  I just moved our virtual Center / Manager Update databases to a new server - which went well and vCenter 4.1 is being run again - but what comes to my mind, it is that the rest of this guide:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1004382 

  ... There will be 3 jobs in "SQL server agent job list:

  Last day stats rollup

  Last month...

  Last week...

  BUT, when I look at the old server has the same 3 jobs over these:

  Cleanup task event

  TopN day

  TopN last month

  TopN since one week

  TopN for a year

  No longer needed? Either lack just in the link above?

  Hey Chrmol - I just stumbled upon a problem similar < < I guess it's the same question > >.

  I moved my VC DB to another server and made to recreate jobs for the postponement of his performance stats. I forgot to check my vCenter in front DR, but when I did today, I noticed that the jobs that you have mentioned exist in a vCenter nine 4.1 DB as opposed to a DB from 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade. I saw warnings under vCenter Service status as jobs were not cleaning all the data.

  I solved the problem by running queries for all work on my upgraded DB VC. Now the two DBs have the same jobs such as topn spent the day, etc.

  Queries are named job_blah, blah_mssql.sql. I ran all but Annex 1, 2 & 3 (perf stats) and this has created the same jobs as the new vCenter 4.1 DB.

  The path to the sql queries is file://\\%vCenterServer%\c$\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server

  Not sure if you are still working on it, but I thought I'd bring it just in case where.

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• Migration of Essential Business Server 2008 Hyper-V to ESXi 5

  Hello world

  I would like to start by saying this would be my first time on these forums posting and get my feet wet with ESX, so please be gentle! After being loaded to a backup plan, I decided to give up the use of Hyper-V and use ESX. We currently have Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 which consists essentially of 3 Server 2008 virtual computers running on top of Hyper-V. I tried to install from scratch on the ESX host without a bit of luck, the installation process is VERY specific and fails during the installation process. There was no clue as to how to fix it, I just got a dialog box saying just reformat and start over; He gave a second shot, but again fell flat on his face. And here, I discovered the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client, seems to be the ideal solution, because we want a backup job! So far 2 servers have been migrated with 1 only being able to boot successfully to the operating system. The other is a domain controller, that I read can be very difficult to migrate and they are particularly sensitive to the hardware changes. Article I read seemed only to cover NT-2003 domain controllers not sure if I can go according to the Dec.

  I'm curious to know if anyone has had some luck in the same case to EBS 2008. I found no guides on the EBS installation on an ESX host, and as much as I'd like to use something different, I'm stuck with it for now. Is there something I'm missing when migrating the DC? The only option I changed was to install VMware Tools after migration and add a NETWORK adapter as the default does not select a network adapter. I still have an Exchange Server, which also acts as a domain controller, to migrate, but I wonder if I'll run into the same problem. I really want to do this work and any suggestions would be helpful.

  So, in summary: vm migrated from Hyper-V to the ESX host, using converter, DC won't boot to the operating system in normal or safe mode it just hangs.

  If you have managed to come out with a hot clone of your ad and it looks fine, you can continue with this, however when you clone a DC a cold clone is always recommended / generally fewer problems because that AD is a sequence of the database which has no way to turn it off.  A cold clone allows you to boot into a linux boot CD environment to clone the box, which means that no service is running, which means you get all the data.

  As far as your question DMZ will you have 2 options.

  Option 1 (keep simple)

  You can spend 1-2 psyhical NICs on the host ESX for a vSwitch DMZ, this may however considered a "waste of nics' However, it maintains the simpler and allows you to connect all the same way, as if it where psyhical.  For example:

  vSwitch0

  Service Console VMnic0

  VM Network Vmnic1

  vSwitch1

  Network DMZ Vmnic2, Vmnic3

  You would then just plug vmnic2 and vmnic3 on the host computer in your DMZ ports on your switch.  When you create your VM create you 1 virtual network adapter and bind it to the VM network and create a 2nd virtual nic to bind to the DMZ network.

  Option 2

  VIRTUAL LOCAL NETWORKS

  A VLAN allows the traffic of tag so you can route different traffic at different locations.  It also allows you to separate the networks so they can't communicate AKA DMZ or test laboratory.

  In VMware, you can tag VLAN on your groups of ports and then based on the balance sheet that you put on your switch ports switch will route traffice to the location.  For example, if you have your network DMZ with a VLAN 10 all traffice leaving this virtual switch when it hits your switch psyhical will have a tag VLAN 10.  So when your switch psyhical see this traffic (if it is configured correctly) he'll see oh this traffice to VLAN 10 I have this Router to port 2 on my firewall to your dmz ect.

  I hope that this makes the sence or helped shed light on the subject.

• ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 - migration

  Guys,

  I have ESX 4.0 and Vcenter 4.0 in my environment. VC server is windows server 2003 64-bit and oracle database. I have to migrate all my hosts ESX 4.1 and I think that I have to migrate VC also to 4.1.

  So my question is how can I migrate Server VC 4.0 Server VC 4.1. After that I have each of my guests migrate from 4.0 to 4.1 using of pre and upgrade.

  Please help me if I am wrong in my plan. I have to migrate, but never did before. Thank you

  Migration paths are documented in http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_upgrade_guide.pdf

  For vCenter, you can make simple upgrade: install the new vCenter, use existing DB connection and there will be an upgrade.

  Then switch VUM to 4.1 and use it to upgrade the hosts.

  André

• Moving the virtual machine containing vCenter to another host ESXI

  I am currently learning/building my first setup of virtualization. I made the mistake of letting the size of the block of the data warehouses to 1 MB. Now, I need to rebuild one of my stores of data.

  I could use vcenter for all my other VMS out migrate to another server esxi. I do not know how to move the VM vCenter, because he must be stopped to be moved, but I need to use the tool of migration/converter to move, which seems quite accessible from within the virtual machine.

  Any ideas?

  Stop vcenter Server and unregister (remove the inventory) of the inventory of the ESXi host. Then use example of Veeam FastSCP to copy some files/folder of the virtual machine to the other hosts data store and register the virtual machine to the inventory of the ESXi host by right-clicking the file vmx (add to the inventory). Make sure that there are no snapshots on the server vCenter Server!

  André

• Migrate from VMware Guest Server that contains the database of VIC in the new VMware host

  Hi, I inherited a system running ESX 3.0.1. The CIV is running on a stand-alone server, but the database resides on a guest on one of the VMware hosts. I need to move/migrate the vmware client to another server so I can use it. How can I migrate because if I try I'll lose the connection to the database?

  I can not just to right and migrate because servers have different CPUs. I can first.

  Sorry if this is a newbie question.

  Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

  do not convert.  This will leave the original intact. Once it comes online and has been validated, you can destroy the old.   In addition, do if offline.