Hi to everybody,
we have a vCenter 5.1 with Update Manager and SSO running on a Windows Server 2008 R2. We use on the same server the free MS SQL Server 2008 R2.
In December or January we want to migrate to vCenter 5.5 which is shipped as a virtual Appliance.
Just a short overview of our environment. Currently we have 8 ESXi hosts (enterprise and standard) and approx 160 virtual machines.
1. Does it make sense to use our MS SQL Server as database or has the Appliance a database shipped with.
2. What is the right way to migrate ? First upgrade to 5.5 on windows and then migrate to the appliance. Or first migrate to the appliance 5.1 and then upgrade to 5.5.
3. How do I have to migrate from Windows to the appliance. I don't mind if I loose the performance statistics, alert history, updatemanager information.... But I need to keep the complete configuration from our environment.
Regards Wolfgang