Migration of virtual machines to vCD and again in a standard ESXi cluster itself?

We currently have a relatively small cluster of ESXi (5.0.0 1489271) which uses a dedicated installation vCenter (5.0.0 1300600) and an instance of vCD (vCD 5.1.2.1068441).  Our goal is to move the virtual machines running in this configuration to our standard ESXi clusters (5.5.0 1892794) supported by installation of different vCenter (5.5.0 1891313).

The instance of vCD seems to add additional parameters to the level of the virtual machine that prevents the VM of to be easily transferred out of the instance of vCD.  What we are looking for is a way to easily migrate these servers on and completely remove the vCD of the equation.  The only details around that we found cause downtime for exports out of vCD can be extended to reason the total amount of drive to the VM and VM level, which we really do not think it is an option to open a window of time to stop long enough to work through this process.

Did someone went down this road before?  We have approximately 120 virtual machines in the cluster vCD using about 52 TB of disk.

Maybe we're wrong understand something fundamental about the nature of migration of VMs on the vCD instance, but we have not been able to find many details on what options exist to make this move.  We have spoken several times with VMware support in this regard.  They mentioned a potential tool in the work within engineering migrate vCD to vCAC (which isn't really fall under our goal unless vCAC would then provide a clear path to return the virtual machines to a standard ESXi cluster).

Any suggestions or ideas are appreciated.

I am a colleague of GTC and wanted to just sent to our discussion of this topic with the help of VMware.  Basically, we should be able to Setup VMs in vCenter, outside of vCloud Director, pointing them to the same files VMDK and MAC then power off VM vCD and power on VM vCenter.

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Moment of validation: 2014-09-05 11:32 EDT

Severity of the request for assistance: 4 - low

Description of the request for assistance: we are looking for ways simple and less disruptive migrate VMS off vCloud Director and vCenter management.

We have the advantage of a single principle in vCloud, managed by a vCenter and the network configuration is simple with no VXLAN.

What are the problems with the realization of the following?

vCD 5.1 is managed by vCenter 5.0, the final result will move VMs in vCenter even

-Create a new virtual machine in vCenter that points to the same vmdk files as virtual machine in vCD you want to migrate, allocate same configurations of processor, memory, and network (we do not use the vCD with advanced networking)

-Turning off the virtual computer in vCD

-Once the vCD WHAT VM is off, power on VM in vCenter

We must ensure that the VM vCD never gets turned on again and then when we are completely finished with all migrations of VMS in vCenter we abandon vCD.

Of course there are details to help users migrate to how they use the vCD to vSphere vCenter client web interface or web interface.

Entry date: 04/09/2014

Since the opening of the case, I had interviews with several members of VMware support staff and these additional points were added.

-Configure vCenter VM with the same vNIC driver MAC and like vCD VM vNIC

-Rename VMDK files to make for easier management, or if not renamed then detach from the propelled out of vCD VM

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