I am planning a migration of vCenter 4.0 U3 to a new physical server. I am also changing operating systems: Windows 2003 R2 SP2 to Windows 2008 R2. I have found and begun to follow the knowledgebase article that guides through the process. I have a few questions though...
I can find no guidance about the Operating System change... is there anything I need to be aware of?
Do I really have to backup and restore the ADAM database seperately since it is already backed up to a table in the VC database? The reason I ask is that dsdbutil.exe gives me a syntax error when I attempt to run "ifm". I have captured a backup of the ADAM database using Backup Exec but I'm not entirely convinced that a restoration of this database will be easy.
Does anyone see a problem with me stopping all the services, capturing the database and log as a flat file, and restoring them as flat files after vCenter has been installed?
We have HA and DRS configured currently. If I choose to install fresh with no migration... what would I lose?
Thanks so much,