VSC migration before Vcenter upgrade

Recently, vcenter server was upgraded from 5.5 to 6.5. This meant that the windows servers used for Vcenter was shutdown and an appliance was deployed.

The VSC server was running on Vcenter and it had to be migrated out of Vcenter as VSC cannot run on the Vcenter appliance. It wasnt possible to deploy VSC appliance as ONTAP didnt support VSC on an appliance.

Therefore, a new windows server was spun up to function as VSC server. Here are the steps I followed:

1) Uninstall VSC on VCenter.

2) Created a copy of the reporsitory folder under <install path>/netApp/virtual storge console/smvi/server/repository

3) Remove VSC plugin from Vcenter
          a) login to https://vcenter/mob
          b) Click Content
          c) Click Extension Manager
          d) You will see the NetApp VSC extension there  (click on NetApp extension and note the ID)
          e)Click unregister extension
          f) Enter the name of the plugin and click invoke method
4) Installed VSC on the new server

5) Registered the plugin.

6) Copied the resposity backup created in step 2 to the install path of the new VSC server.

7) Logged into VCenter and add the storge array in VSC.

8) Verified the backup jobs are visible under Home -->Vcenter --> backup jobs.


Reference link : https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1029905