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Hi all,

I currently have vCenter 6.7 running on windows 2016. I would like to switch to VCSA 6.7

All of the instructions I can find are regarding upgrade path from 6.0/6.5 to VCSA 6.7

Are these applicable or are there differences? Did anyone have a similar situation? Or do I just leave it as it is?

End goal is to upgrade to U1 for both vCenter and ESXi hosts (everything is 6.7)

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As far as I’m aware there isn’t a way to go from 6.7 on windows to the VCSA appliance at this time.

You could Install the VCSA Appliance, add the ESXi hosts to the new vcentre. That wouldn’t need any downtime on the ESXi hosts.

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Depending on your complexity of the vCenter setup, such as distributed switches, folders, permissions, alarms, resource pools, etc… might be easier to just decommission the Windows VC and deploy a fresh appliance.

Atm I don’t think the tool supports 6.7 → 6.7 anyway. Cant find anywhere officially either.

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Will be better to just deploy a new VCSA Appliance and after move the host to it.

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That’s what I thought, thank you all.

I will have to deploy new VCSA. Is it ok to run both of them parallel until I’m sure everything is configured properly? Since I have DSwitches and VLANs and so on…

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Is your PSC external? Then yes, you can just point appliance to it. Once ready, decommission the Windows VC.

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hm, I think it is not. I ran the following:

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TBH, I’m not sure what PSC is and how do I go about it.

Hvala :wink:

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PSC is something of an equivalent to Domain Controller. Not so sophisticated though :slight_smile: …It is a very important component of your vSphere infrastructure, and should be carefully planned. It is responsible for your SSO domain (usually “vsphere.local” and all users in there). If you are managing vSphere environment, I highly recommend you read at least fundamental documentation around PSC.

VMware Knowledge Base - explains supported topologies for vCenter and PSC

You can see in KB, it is not supported to point the vCenter to a PSC that is embedded with another vCenter on the same machine. You will need to switch to external PSC, before joining another vCenter to this SSO domain

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2148924?lang=en_US

Sretno! :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the explanation and links.

I think I will leave it as it is for now :slight_smile: