Migrating a managed vCenter to another Deep Security Manager (DSM)

- Updated:
- 24 Nov 2016
- Product/Version:
- Deep Security 9.6
- Platform:
- Amazon AMI 32-bit
- Amazon AMI 64-bit
- CentOS 5.4 32-bit
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- Oracle Linux 5 32-bit
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Summary

You deployed two (2) DSMs with one (1) vCenter in each DSM. Follow this procedure if you need to remove the second DSM and add the second vCenter into the first DSM.

Details

To move a vCenter to another DSM:

Deactivate the systems in the second manager environment.
Remove the vCenter from the second manager.
Add the vCenter/VSM to the first manager.
Activate the Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DSVA) again.

You do not have to prepare the ESX again. The first manager will see them as prepared when it synced up with VC, assuming that the FD and other package version matched between the two managers.