Hi There
I'm planning an upgrade of our vSphere 5 environment to vSphere 6 by building a new vCenter/PSC architecture and then migrating our VM Hosts onto the new vCenters.
We use vCNS 5.1.2 which I've planned to migrate to vCNS 5.5.4 and migrate to the new environment.
In vCNS we have a vShield Manager and 12 vShield Edge appliances that manage isolated bubble environments with many firewall and NAT rules on each.
I have tested the process and migration including upgrading to vCNS 5.5.4 and migrating vShield Manager to the new vCenter and everything works fine.
The migrated vShield Edge appliances work perfectly and their firewall rules all continue to operate correctly.
The problem though is that when you go into vShield Manager it now has the new datacenters listed and if you click on the new datacenters there is no configuration in any of them.
This means I cannot modify the configuration of any of the vShield Edges so they are stuck with their existing rule set.
To test, I regsitered the vShield Manager back to the original vCenter and under the old datacenter I can see all of the Edges to configure them but of course it cannot update the settings on them because the physical appliances no longer exist in that environment.
So the question is, is there any way of moving the configuration that vShield Manager knows about so that it exists in the new Datacenter and can manage all of the Edges that were migrated?
For example, is it possible to edit the vShield Manager configuration database and change the datacenter references somehow so the configuration is at least visible from the new vCenter.
I'm really not looking forward to having to recreate all of these Edges since there are a lot of rules in them currently...