How to do it...

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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. 

 

  1. At the non-vCenter machine, browse the contents of the VCSA ISO ROM, navigate to vcsa-ui-installer, and choose a subdirectory corresponding ...

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