Stage 2: Platform Services Controller
This is going to do the upgrade and migration of the Platform Services Controller
Click Next
Fill in all information of the source Platform Services Controller. Click Next.
Pre-upgrade checks are in progress
As mentioned earlier, set DRS to manual and deploy to a host directly. This I found gave me the least issues. This warning is completely safe to ignore. Click Close.
I’ve unchecked joining the CEIP. Our firewall blocks the traffic so no need for the excessive traffic. Click Next.
Review the options, place a check in the check box. The backup was done at time of snapshot. Click Finish to complete the migration.
Accept the warning. Click OK
Time for another coffee. Again, will be about 10-20 minutes for this process to complete.
The deployment is now complete.
Once all Platform Services Controllers have been upgraded, I proceeded to do the vCenter servers, in the same order.
Ytsejamer1
This was a fantastic series! Thank you for the detail and full context of the steps for a project of this sort.
One thing I ran into is when the stage 1 deployment created the new VCSA VM. It was unable to set some VM property, but had no idea which one. It went through and completed Stage 1 but it failed moving to Stage 2 because the migration couldn’t contact the new VCSA. The issue was that the vNIC was not set as connected.
What was nice is that the migration application gave me the appliance link where I could manually kick off the Stage 2 portion of the migration. It worked without issue and was a mirror of what the migration would have presented. In fact, it worked a lot faster through the browser.
Raymond
Hi,
I am glad you found this post useful. Let me know if there is anything else you are interested in me blogging about.