We currently have Vcenter 4.1 running on sql express 2005 with server 2008R2. I want to migrate away from my phyiscal box to a virtual running 5.5 and sql 2008 r2 and Server 2008 r2. (Plan is to bring the hosts up to 5.5 as well)
It seems like it might be a pretty big PITA to move the database and a lot of problems can come up.
So my thought is just screw it and start again. What do I lose by not moving my DB? we are only a 2 host system with 25 vms. If I go this route what would I have to reconfigure or do I just add the hosts back and bobs your uncle. I assume update manager will have a fit but it would be clean anyway as the baselines would be from 4.1 and I will be moving to 5.5.
Or I might just go to the server appliance instead of using another windows machine.
Just some thoughts please offer some advice it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.