When the OVA deployment completes, you are redirected to stage 2 of the migration process to transfer the data from the source vCenter Server and start the services of the newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 with an embedded Platform Services Controller.
Your window of downtime does not begin until you begin to set up the target appliance. You cannot cancel or interrupt the process until it completes with the shut down of the source deployment. Your window of downtime ends when the target appliance starts.
Procedure
Results
The source vCenter Server instance is migrated from Windows to an appliance. The sourcevCenter Server instance is powered off and the new target appliance starts.
What to do next
Verify that your migration to an appliance was successful. For verification steps, see Verify Your vCenter Server Appliance Upgrade or Migration Is Successful. For post-migration steps, see After Upgrading or Migrating vCenter Server.