Use the migration tool to migrate from vCenter hosts to vCenter clusters.
- LOCATION OF TOOL
- HOW TO RUN TOOL
- https://github.com/abiquo/tools/tree/master/vcenter-cluster-upgrade#what
Resources in infrastructure will be changed from VMX_04 to VCENTER_CLUSTER
VDC hypervisor type will change from VMX_04 to VCENTER_CLUSTER (registered on Events tab)
The migration process will automatically retrieve all VMs from all hosts.
If you had previously captured VMs, after you complete the migration, check the VMs.
- From Abiquo 4.5.1 onwards, you do not need to recapture the VMs.
- In Abiquo 4.7.6 and from 5.1 onwards, the platform can proceed with the migration even when there are protected VMs.
After you run the migration tool, if you are using Networker, edit the networker.properties and change the hosts parameters to use the name of the vCenter cluster instead of the IP address of the hosts.
For example, if you previously had the following lists of ESXi hosts defined:
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abiquo.networker.siteA.hosts=esxi1.example.com,esxi2.example.com
abiquo.networker.siteB.hosts=esxi3.example.com,esxi4.example.com |
You would now change the list of hostnames to the
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abiquo.networker.siteA.hosts=vCenter-Cluster1.example.com-domain-c1
abiquo.networker.siteB.hosts=vCenter-Cluster2.example.com-domain-c2 |
After you change the properties, restart the tomcat server.