One basic question. Can we manage vCenter 5.5 and 6.0 in the same vSphere Web Client?
I have a vCenter/vSphere 5.5 environment and are getting more new hosts. The old vCenter is on Windows 2008 and we want to migrate to Windows 2012. So we are building a new 6.0 vCenter environment. In the new hosts, we will install the vSphere 6.0. Once the new environment is in place, we will start to migrate the VMs from 5.5 to 6.0. The management wants to be able to manage both 5.5 and 6.0 in the same web client during the transition period. So I have been testing to find a way to do that.
The test I have done is to use the Linked mode on the two vCenter servers with the following steps.
Setup a new server and install 5.5 SSO
Re-pointed the vCenter 5.5 to the new SSO server
Upgrade the 5.5 SSO to 6.0 PSC
Install vCenter 6.0 and point to the PSC server.
So now I have both vCenter servers using the same PSC server. I can verify both vCenter are using the same SSO server from the web client > Administration > Single Sign-on > Configuration. If I got this right, I should see both vCenter servers in the same web client. But that is not the case. I still only see that vCenter server when I log in with the vCenter server URL. That makes sense. But when I log into the PSC server address, I only see the 5.5 vCenter server in the list, not both.
Am I missing some steps? Any suggestion is great.
Thanks,
Andy