You can migrate from an earlier version of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to the current vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager version.

You can migrate vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 2.1 to 8.x or later. The migration requires inputs, such as legacy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager hostname, user name, password, and SSH password. For more information, watch the Migration of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager with vRealize Easy Installer video:

Prerequisites

  • Verify and older version of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, such as 2.1 or later.
  • Verify that the legacy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager has SSH enabled for the root user.

Procedure

  1. From the Easy Installer wizard, click Migrate.
  2. Enter the vCenter details where the new vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x is installed.
  3. Select the data center in the vCenter Server, Compute Resource, and Storage.
  4. Enter the network configuration details.
  5. In the Password configration, enter the password which can be set to the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager root and admin password.
  6. If you want to deploy Workspace ONE Access, then enter the password for admin, sshuser, and root credential.
  7. Enter the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x VMname, Hostname, and the IP details.
  8. Enter the legacy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Hostname, Username, and Password.
  9. Select New Identity Manager Installation or Import Existing Identity Manager.
    If you have selected New Identity Manager Installation, then it is deployed in the same vCenter mentioned in step 2. If you selected Import Existing Identity Manager, verify that the identity manager is already registered in the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager legacy VM and identity manager SSH is enabled for the root user.
  10. Click Submit.
  11. When the migration is successful, click the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager URL or the migration request to view the progress by logging in with admin@local with the password given in step 5.
  12. All the environments with data centers, vCenter instances, settings (such as NTP, DNS, and so on), content endpoints that are managed by vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager are migrated and the environments are imported to the latest version.

Results

As part of migration, create a global environment based on installation or import when you import legacy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager VMware Workspace ONE Access to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x. If there is a failure in the global environment, it can be due to the missing SSH user password in the legacy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. Enter the SSH password details by selecting the correct password on retry and submit the changes to create a global environment. After a global environment is created, you can resume the migration operation.

With migration you can create environments, settings, certificate and so on. You can check the status of migration on the Request status.
Note: If you import an existing VMware Workspace ONE Access and if the admin password is different from the SSH user for the VMware Workspace ONE Access, then the global environment request fails. In this case, add the SSH password in the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager locker manually and retry the request with this password.