Does anyone have a process documented to manually deploy a vCenter 6.7 and migrate the existing 6.5 vCenter to it?
The upgrade wizard for 6.7 does not allow one to select a network on a DVS that has Non-ephemeral ports. Seems somewhat limited as a static port binding will still allow the VM power up/down with vCenter off....which the wizard does preform.
However, we have a site that heavily uses NSX-V for all virtual machines, including vCenter. NSX-V only supports the static port type when it creates logical switches on the DVS.
So we are kinda stuck. Our NSX setup is pretty complex with all the routing and firewalls we have in place. Creating a standard Virtual switch, moving the old vCenter to it for upgrade, while keeping its IP would be quite tough. The subnet for the vCenter already lives on an NSX logical switch. Moving to a standard vSwitch with a new ip scheme is not possible. To much is pointing to the current vCenter IP.
Seems like there should be a way to deploy the new vCenter, then run the migration scripts between the old and new one. But I couldn't find any docs on it.