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How to migrate VMware agentlessly protected machines to a new vCenter -
Description
When Rapid Recovery is configured to perform agentless backups through vCenter, it relies on VMware CBT to track changes on the volumes and provide incremental backups.VMware CBT resides on ESXi hosts and not the vCenter, therefore, if the VMware migration goes as expected, Rapid Recovery should be able to take incremental backups after the migration.Since vCenter is a new machine, and Rapid Recovery is not yet connected to it, the protection needs to be reconfigured to use the new vCenter for backups. -
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1- Take note or make a backup of the current transfer schedules. This is only necessary if custom schedules have been setupThere is a powershell script available at KB157147 , that can help with this procedure.Note: Quest does not provide support to custom scripts. Detailed information about custom scripts support is available at KB1194052- Remove vCenter from protection and associated VMs will also be removed (do NOT select the option to remove recovery points)3- Move ESXi hosts to new vCenter4- Re protect machines using the new vCenter5- Reconfigure schedules or import them from the registry backup previously generated by the powershell script