I am looking to migrate a vCenter 5.0 virtual appliance to another machine with DAS. Is it possible to do this without vMotion and without breaking anything?
If so, could one follow a similar process to migrating a VM without a vCenter server as outlined here?
EDIT : This methodology worked well, however there was an issue with the machine detecting the NIC card after the migration. This was caused by the fact the MAC address of the NIC had changed. VMWare has this issue documented at the following site : http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2012451
Once the change was applied the system started up without issue.
Best Answer
Ok, based on your comments then no, just shut it down, move the whole directory and re-add the VM, that's all you'll need to do.