You might encounter a situation where you have vCOPS 5.x running in your environment. As you know VMware vCOPS 5.8 is a vAPP (2 VMs) so you can't simply vMotion the vApp as a whole to another cluster. vCOPs (vCenter Operations Manager) now renamed to vROPs (vRealize Operation Manager) was architected untill the version 5.8 as vAPP, but the latest release of vROPS 6.0 is a single VM only. How-to migrate a VMware vRealize Operations Manager vApp from one cluster to another – simple way?
If your environment runs vCOPS 5.x and If you want to move this vAPP from one cluster to another, you basically have two solutions:
- Create a Clone – takes some time to do so….
- A Workaround – we will look closer to this solution.
The “problem” with cloning vAPP is that it takes some time (unless you have VAAI ready array). A much quicker way is to move those 2 vCOPS virtual machines out of the vAPP and then only move them to the target cluster. After only clone the (empty) vAPP and add the virtual machines to the vAPP again.
To recap that – How-to Move a VMware vRealize Operations Manager vApp from one cluster to another:
01. Shutdown the vCOPS vAPP.
02. Move those 2 VMs (UI and Analytics VMs) from the source cluster to the destination cluster (won't take much time if those VMs reside on shared storage)
03. Clone the vAPP to the destination cluster.
04. Add the virtual machines to the vAPP in the destination cluster > remove the original vAPP.
05. You can rename the copied vAPP back to the original name if you want to….
Yes, cloning the “empty” vAPP is the way to go.
That's all folks… -:)
