Migration of one vCenter to another cluster

Hello

We have a cluster under A vCenter which runs on the Cisco Nexus 1000v switch distributed. This cluster (all hosts of ESXi and VMs) must be migrated to VMs vCenter B keeping alive if possible.

I know that this host can be removed form the VirtualCenter with VM direct and added a new vCenter but not sure a distributed switch

Looking for options / advice

Our vCenter is 5.1

Thank you in advance,

Arkady

The switch really makes this difficult process.  You prefer to bet on it to make the following process:

1 take a source host network adapter and connect to a standard virtual switch

2. move all the VMS to the switch stanard

3. remove the second 1000v virtual switch interface (DISPLACEMENT market out virtual switch management)

4. move the hosts with vm to new vCenter

5 Migtate of virtual machines to new switch

I know that this process sucks but the virtual switches are a construction of vCenter and will not go through vCenter.    The other option is to wait for vSphere 6.0 and new vMotion allows to solve this problem.  With vMotion new this should be a right click and wait for the process, assuming that the source and target ESXi host have the same VLAN.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you

Joseph

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