options to migrate Vcentre applicance to new Cluster (version 8)

[mcgreen1966]

Hi we have built a brand new host cluster under the same Vcentre appliance as our old host cluster.

The storage between host clusters isn't shared but is obviously under the management of the Vcentre.

I have Live migrated all 86 of our normal production VM's across to the new cluster without issue, using migrate compute and storage.

My question is, although if have reached out to VMware support and googled i cannot seem to find a straight answer.

The only VM Left on the old cluster is the actual Vcentre appliance VM itself.

I don't see why i couldn't live migrate this across host clusters as it worked for all the other normal VM's or is there a process we should follow, I.E clone it , Vsphere Migration etc with it offline?

Has anyone else done this, any advice many thanks

Mark

[a_p_]

>>> I don't see why i couldn't live migrate this across host clusters ...

Any error or warning messages?

André

[mcgreen1966]

Hi I haven't tried to migrate the VCentre appliance yet, I was looking for best practice advice before I attempted it 🙂

Regards

Mark

[markey165]

@mcgreen1966 - In this context vCenter is "just another VM". As long as it can still communicate with everything it manages, it doesn't matter which actual Cluster it resides on.

I similarly moved our old vCenter 6.7 VCSA to our new vSphere 7.0 platform (until we were happy we could bin it) and no issues whatsoever. In our case we did a side by side migration between 2 SSO domains (so effectively a more extreme use case), but as above, as long as vCenter can still talk to everything it manages, it should be fine. 

HTH 😊

[navina]

It is still considered as a normal VM.
There are no special pre-requisites for a vCenter VM vMotion