Cross vCenter Migration in vCenter 7.0 Update 1

If you are not aware when vSphere 7.0 Update 1 was release, there is one improvement made to Cross vCenter Migration.

For those who didn't follow, in the past, Cross vCenter Migration can only be done between vCenter Servers within the same SSO domain. This created a limitation especially when one company merge or acquire another, they are unable to move the workloads but have to resort to the traditional methods either from backup and restore, etc.

With vSphere 7.0 Update 1, vCenter Server 7.0 Update 1 improve this function. There is no longer a requirement of having both the vCenter Servers to be part of the same SSO domain. This resolve lots of use cases out there in the field.

This feature came as a Fling and eventually made it to be part of the official product.

However, there are some things need to be clear on the requirements.

You need to make sure the vSphere edition needs to be at least Enterprise Plus. For Standard and the old Enterprise edition (if you didn't upgrade this which has EOL as a sold product) do not support Cross vCenter Migration.

You need to make sure the supported source to destination version of vCenter. There is a KB documented just for this. The minimum supported at time of writing is vSphere 6.0 U3 will be able to support to migrate to vSphere 7.0 U1.

When planning for migration, do take note of the above.