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Migrating from vCenter Windows Server to vCenter Service Appliance with VMware Horizon 7.x (51154)

Last Updated: 12/28/2023Categories: How toTotal Views: 15626Language:
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Important: We recommend you migrate from Horizon 7 to Horizon 8 as soon as possible. Horizon 8 offers numerous improvements in performance, scale, and experience for both Administrators and end users. Please see Ensuring a successful migration from Horizon 7 to Horizon 8 (89840)  for additional advice.

This article provides guidelines for migrating a Windows-installed vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with Horizon.

VMware has qualified the migration of vCenter Windows Server 5.5 to 6.0 and 6.5 VCSA, and Windows Server 6.0 to VCSA 6.5 with Horizon. This process may function on more recent variants of Horizon and vCenter for edge cases where a Windows vCenter Server is in operation. Please ensure appropriate working backups and a rollback strategy are in place before proceeding.

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Before starting the migration, click here to view the quick overview video of the migration process using the vCenter Server Appliance Migration Tool. For more information, see FAQ: Migrating vCenter Server 5.5 to vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 U2m.

After using the VCSA Migration Tool to move from a Windows installed vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), additional steps are required to properly manage a Horizon environment.

Shutdown all Connection Servers.

Reboot the Composer server (if one exists).

Start all Connection Servers at the same time. If you encounter issues, see Restart order of the View environment to clear ADLDS (ADAM) synchronization in Horizon View.

For Automated Full Clone pools and Linked Clone pools which use Sysprep, use vSphere Web Client to edit the Customization Specifications which were migrated over and re-enter the default administrator password and the password for joining the virtual machine to the domain.

For Instant Clone (IC) pools, if upgrading from 6.0 to a 6.5 release, you must upgrade all ESXi hosts to ESXi 6.5 immediately after upgrading to vCenter Server Appliance to 6.5, before attempting to manage an IC pool. To assist in evacuating the host, use the IcMaint.cmd and/or IcUnprotect.cmd tools prior to upgrading. For more information, see the Instant-Clone Maintenance Utilities section of the VMware Horizon 7 guide.

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Please see Supported host operating systems for Windows vCenter Server installation (2091273)  for historical o/s support with VCenter .

In vSphere 7.0, vCenter Server for Windows has been removed and support is not available. For more information, see Farewell, vCenter Server for Windows .

See, Upgrading vSphere when Horizon Instant Clones are in use(52573).

简体中文：使用 VMware Horizon 7.x 和 6.x 从 vCenter Windows Server 迁移到 vCenter Server Appliance

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