Problem: I need to migrate our VCenter that hosts VMWare View Linked Clone Desktops to new hardware. I am not really finding a procedure for this. I can only find a procedure for migrating Composer (including RSA Keys) to new hardware. Is it possible to migrated a VCenter to different hardware when View Linked Clones are involved?
Environment:
VMware View Connection Servers 5.1.1
View Agents 5.1.1
VCenter Server 5.0.0 and Composer 3.0 (installed on same server) - Database for both is on a separate SQL 2008 Server
All Servers both old and new are Windows 2008 R2 (x64)
Possible Solution:
Is the below possible?
1. Disable Provisioning and Migrate Composer to new hardware per the instructions in the Upgrade Guide (migrating the RSA keys with it),
2. Ensure that View Composer is still able to provision new desktops, etc after Composer has been migrated.
3. Shutdown the old VCenter Server.
3a. Backup SQL Databases
4. Name the new VCenter Server with the same name (and same IP) as the old VCenter server.
5. Install VCenter 5.0 on the new server and point to the old VCenter Server's SQL database.
6. After all the above is complete and verified as working...upgrade new VCenter Server to 5.1.0a (at a later date)