Hi Guys,
I currently have my prod vCenter running on another vCenter as a VM. I want to take it off and move it to different hardware (one that it manages) and setup HA on it.
I've tried to move it a couple of times using VMWare converter but both times it fails. It seems to boot up and I can log in but after a few mins it just craps out. Its easy to revert back as i can simply power up the VCSA that i converted from. The vCenter is running on a ephermal port on the Distrubuted switch.
I get error 503 when trying to log in,
I was going to try a new approach setup a shared datastore between the 2vcenters migrate vcenter to that and unregister it.
then while vcenter is down, i connect directly to the one of the hosts that the downed vcenter is managing and register it there and boot it up.
I think that should, work, although i thought using vmware converter would have also worked. I read somewhere that maybe it should be running in a stardard vswitch, but when i spoke to vmware tech support he said running on an epermal port should be fine.
any help appreciated.