VMware vSphere: migrate machines between vCenters
Aug 15, 2022
How to quickly migrate VMs between vCenters (even if from different versions)
Our use case was migrating between old vCenter to new vCenter, from different versions (including hosts in different versions). We just didn’t want to spend time upgrading the old vCenter and hosts as they were planned to be disposed.
In this link VMware are explaining how to run a local webhosted Java applet to run a tool to migrate between vCenters.
The flow is simple:
- Run the tool
- Browse to the localhost web address at the default port (unless changed)
- Register at least 2 vCenters
- Choose source / destination clusters
- That’s it. Each machine takes no more then a few seconds (pending datastore isn’t changed)