In the below image I have windows based vCenter server with vGyan-DC-01 data center and two cluster vGyan-CL-01,vGyan-CL-02. Let’s try to migrate this environment to VCSA 6.5 with an embedded update manager. In my lab environment I have one VMware vCenter Server 6.0 running on Windows 2012 R2 with embedded SQL database and an external VMware update manager with embedded SQL database. Integrated update manager and prostrige database, all in one solution for your virtualized environment. Why we need to rethink… VMware vCenter 6.5 appliance is coming with all the supported features available in Windows based vCenter Server. Apart from that we have dependency on OS team and database team to setup or troubleshoot Virtualized environment.
So if you are taking this environment as an example we need three windows server license, one SQL server license and resource for running this three servers. In our production environment we have windows based vCenter Server, windows based SQL database server, windows based Update Manager Server and all are running as virtual machines.
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Today we will discuss about how to migrate a Windows based vCenter Server 6.0 to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 with an external VMware update manager (VUM).