The following procedure will walk you through the steps involved in migrating and upgrading a vCenter 5.5/6.0 installation to a vCenter Server 6.5 Appliance with an embedded database:
- Use the migration-assistant to perform the pre-checks and ready the source vCenter Server and its component servers for migration. Read the section Using the vCenter 6.5 Migration Assistant of this chapter for instructions.
- Once you have readied the vCenter and its components using migration-assistant, map the VCSA ISO to a non-vCenter machine because the source will be shut down during the migration.
- At the non-vCenter machine, browse the contents of the VCSA ISO ROM, navigate to vcsa-ui-installer, and choose a subdirectory corresponding ...