Good afternoon All,
I will be upgrading from vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6.5 in the near future. Currently we have ESXI/vCenter on the same disk. We have 10 other disks with all of our VMs.
The issue is the current disk is starting to fail. We need to get everything moved to a new disk. We have the basic "VMware vSphere 5 Essentials" + "vCenter Server 5 Essentials". We just purchased the "vSphere 6 Essentials Kit". This means we don't have vMotion or other tools available in the "Plus" kit.
Also, please note, environment only has one host at the moment.
Is it possible to shut down all the VMs, install vCenter 6.5 on a new disk, then have the new vCenter 6.5 "discover" the new VMs? (essentially just adding old VMs to the new vCenter)
Or should I get everything upgraded/running on the existing disk, then somehow transfer that to a new disk?