add esxi host to vcenter, any downtime?

[xSauronx]

I goofed. I have not set up a vmware system from scratch in a while...and i guess neither has our vendor.

So we didnt put "add vcenter appliance and connect vcenter to esxi host" on the to do list.

so i have a stand-alone esxi host running 2 prod VMs right now. I need vcenter on it for vshield/virtualized AV.

I have done some reading and watched some videos, but wanted to check again.

Will I have any downtime when adding the esxi host to vcenter? Maybe just a reboot? I want to do it saturday so i wont impact users but the site is 3 hours away so i dont want to have a giant problem pop up on me, since the vcenter appliance vm will have to just run on the one standalone host.

 

[yinan]

No downtime

 

[quikah]

no downtime. Can take a minute or 2 to finish the process, but the running VMs shouldn't be affected.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

no downtime. Can take a minute or 2 to finish the process, but the running VMs shouldn't be affected.

this.

 

[xSauronx]

ok, thats what i thought but i wanted to be sure, thanks all!

 

[LoCaNto]

If it helps, here is the full procedure for adding an ESXi host to the vCenter Server inventory: http://vmware-esxi.com/add-an-esxi-host-to-the-vcenter-server-inventory/

 

[xSauronx]

well the procedure i was aware of, just wanted to be clear
but that may be a pretty handy site and i hadnt come across it yet, thanks!