Greetings,
I would like to move some ESXi 5.0 hosts that are in a cluster on vCenter 5.0 to a new 5.5 vCenter without powering down the guests. Is this possible? I've read a lot about requiring maintenance mode, and then saw an old article (KB1002314) that described simply disconnecting them from vCenter and adding them to the new vCenter (This was for version v3.0). Maybe this can still be done? From the article, "VMware recommends removing the VirtualCenter management agent and VMware HA services afterward." - I imagine this would still need to happen.
I also read this, which suggest the same is possible: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/17/the-basics-moving-hosts-from-one-vcenter-server-to-the-other/
Any help is appreciated,
Rick