add esxi host to vcenter, any downtime?

xSauronx

Lifer
Jul 14, 2000
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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.
 

quikah

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

xSauronx

Lifer
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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!