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VCSA 6.5 Migration deployment sizes limited!

mwpreston March 21, 2017 8 min read

Recently I finally bit the bullet and decided to bring the vCenter portion of a vSphere environment up to version 6.5.  Since the migration from a Windows based vCenter to the VCSA is now a supported path I thought it would also be a good time to migrate to the appliance as well.  So with that I ran through a few blogs I found in regards to the migration, checked out the vSphere Upgrade Guide and peeled through a number KB’s looking for gotchya’s.  With my knowledge in hand I headed into the migration.

At this point I had already migrated my external windows based PSC to version 6.5 and got started on the migration of the windows-based vCenter Server.  Following the wizard I was prompted for the typical SSO information along with where I would like to place the appliance.  The problem though came when I was prompted to select a deployment size for my new VCSA.  My only options available were Large and X-Large.  Might not be a big deal if in fact this environment required this amount of resources – Looking at the table below those deployment sizes are scoped to fit at a 1000 host and above mark.

DeploymentSize

Did this environment have 1000+ hosts and 10000+ VMs?  Absolute