ESXi Hosts Containing OnTAP Select Moving to a New vCenter

[TMADOCTHOMAS]

Hello,

In a couple of months, I will need to pull two ESXi hosts containing two nodes of an OnTAP Select cluster out of our current vCenter, and then immediately put them into a new vCenter. Other than repointing the Deploy VM to the new vCenter after the fact, is there anything special I need to do to insure there's no outage for OnTAP Select? Any advice will be appreciated! Thanks.

[elementx]

I don't know if the assumption that repointing OTSD to the new vCenter will work is correct. 

I'd download OTS Eval and try this move with its own OTSD (copy OTS data and register it on the other center, then repoint).

Or maybe someone already knows it's supposed to work. We'll see.

[TMADOCTHOMAS]

Well, we did have a case a couple of years ago where we had to stand up a new vCenter and I had to enter the new vCenter name in Deploy. Slightly different situation as we didn't pull hosts out of the existing vCenter and add them to the new one. This was an upgrade. However, the upgrade required a new vCenter be stood up, so I had to enter the new name in Deploy, which did work. So I don't think that will be an issue - it's mainly knowing if Select itself will have an issue when pulled out of vCenter temporarily.

[elementx]

I wonder if temporarily pulling OTS out of vCenter could trigger Deploy to do something unpredictable such as declare OTS dead/orphaned.

I'll wait to see what someone closer to the product says.

[TMADOCTHOMAS]

Precisely my concern. Wondering if we need to do it one node at a time and do a failover/poweroff/poweron/giveback.