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If you’ve got some extra time, our YouTube channel is full of great videos. You can check out our PowerCLI video, hosted by Andy Syrewicze below. However, if you are using PowerCLI 6.5 or newer, the Move-VM cmdlet will support both federated and non-federated cross vCenter migrations. To migrate VMs between vCenter Server instances in separate vSphere Single Sign-On domains, you need to use vSphere APIs/SDK to migration. Functional NTP is critical for this feature to work! You can check under each host configuration tab or use the Get-VMHostNTPServer PowerCLI cmdlet. Tip #4īoth vCenter Server instances must be time-synchronized with each other for correct vCenter Single Sign-On token verification. For a deep dive on what linked mode, is, I highly recommend you check out this other post we’ve written. This is because the source vCenter must be able to authenticate to the destination vCenter. Tip #3īoth vCenter Server instances must be in Enhanced Linked Mode and must be in the same vCenter Single Sign-On domain to migrate VMs using the vSphere Web Client. If you’re in the process of upgrading your environment, I would highly consider upgrading your licensing scheme to allow for this feature.

The cross vCenter Server and long-distance vMotion features require an Enterprise Plus license, so be sure both source and destination environments are licensed properly. It’s also recommended that if you upgrade from 6.0 to 6.5, or 6.5 to 6.7, that you upgrade the other side of the environment to that same version as well. All of your environments must be upgraded to at least 6.0. Prior to 6.0, you had to shut VMs down and export/re-import manually. The source and destination vCenter and ESXi hosts must be running at least vSphere 6.0 or later. Let’s outline a few tips for a successful cross vCenter migration.

The round-trip time between hosts can take up to 150 milliseconds.

250 Mbps per vSphere vMotion operation.

Secure (recommended if not using vSphere 6.5 or later encrypted vSphere vMotion).

Same virtual machine IP address available at the destination.

There are some requirements for long-distance vMotion as well that we need to address first. You might consider these types of migrations for things like disaster recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager, Multisite load balancing or follow the sun scenario support.

The days of being locked into one vCenter are long gone. All of the old boundaries we used to have are no longer an issue. Now, we also have to keep in mind that the hosts must meet the same CPU compatibility standards.

You can change compute, network, storage, and management all in one concurrent move. Cross vCenter migrations were introduced in vSphere 6.0 and they allow virtual machines to be moved from one vCenter Server instance to another. We’ve got a few posts on vMotion already but none on cross vCenter migrations. For this post, I wanted to put together a few tips on cross vCenter migrations.