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
The 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.
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:
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 hosts to the names of the vCenter clusters.
abiquo.networker.siteA.hosts=vCenter-Cluster1.example.com-domain-c1 abiquo.networker.siteB.hosts=vCenter-Cluster2.example.com-domain-c2
After you change these properties, restart the tomcat server.
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.