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Best Practices

The Data Migration Tool should be unzipped in both the source and destination vCenter Server. In our scenario,

weinstalledtheWindows200864-bitOSonthenewvCenterServer5.0andextractedthevCenterinstallation

ﬁles. A folder named datamigration contains a zip ﬁle called datamigration. This zip ﬁle contains the required

tools for migrating all required data from the source vCenter Server to the destination vCenter Server.

Backup Conﬁguration Using the Data Migration Tool

•Stopthefollowingservicesonthe“source”vCenterServer:

– VMware vSphere Update Manager service

– vCenter Management Web Services

– vCenter Server service

•OpenaCommand Prompt and go to the location from which datamigration.zip was extracted.

•Typebackup.bat.

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