Hi all,
We are upgrading our vSphere from 4.1 to 5.1.
We are getting an outside company to do the actual upgrade, but need to P2V the vCenter server. We want to make a virtual server of the vCenter server but not have it running as the vCenter server immediately, just need a stable virtual version of the vCenter server until the outside company can do the upgrade (which is scheduled to be done in 4 weeks). I found another plan on here but have tweaked to our needs.
- Verify good full backup of vCenter Server
- Ensure there are no current migrations
- Verify good full backup of SQL
- Maintenance mode target ESX host and wait for all VM’s to DRS to another host
- Disconnect ESX host from vCenter
- Remove ESX host from vCenter
- Stop all vCenter and SQL Services on physical vCenter server
- Run P2V converter
- Check if stable with NIC disabled
Is there any issues with this plan? Anything else we need to be aware of?
Thanks