Prerequisite: -Take a snapshot of all nodes in the vRA Cluster
-Backup the vRA vPostgres Database
-Rename the VMware vSphere Cluster used in the VMware vRealize Automation environment.
Add the cluster to the Fabric Group.
- Log in to the vRealize Automation tenant with admin privileges.
- Go to Infrastructure > Endpoints > Fabric Group
- Hover over the Fabric Group name and click Edit.
- Select new cluster name and click OK.
- To check the status of data collection, navigate to Infrastructure > Compute Resources > Compute Resources. Hover over the renamed cluster and select Data Collection from the pop up menu.
- Verify that the Inventory, State, and Performance parameters have a Last completed as: In progress, In Queue or have a last time collected timestamp.
- Verify the status of Inventory Status, State Status and Performance Status change to Succeeded before proceeding.
Create a new reservation.
- In vRealize Automation, go to Infrastructure > Reservations > Reservations.
- Edit the existing reservation
- Note the required information of the General, Resources, Network, Properties, and Alerts Tabs. This information is used to create a new reservation.
- Click New Reservation > vSphere (vCenter) and complete the Reservation Information.
- Fill out each tab with the information gathered from step 3.
- Click OK.
Migrate virtual machines to new reservation.
- Move the virtual machines from the old Reservation to the new Reservation.
- Go to Infrastructure > Managed Machines
- Hover over each of machine that needs the reservation update, and select Change Reservation from the menu.
Delete the old reservation.
- Go to Infrastructure > Reservations > Reservations.
Note: Before deleting ensure that no virtual machines are in the reservation. - Select the reservation and click Delete.
For 7.x: Select the Reservation and click Delete. Delete all DataCollectionStatus records for the old cluster from the IaaS database
- From the vRA IaaS Database run the below query:
DELETE from DataCollectionStatus Run a data collection on the new vCenter cluster
- Select Infrastructure > Compute Resources > Compute Resources.
- Hover over the new Cluster and select Data Collection from the pop up menu.
- Select each Data Collection object and select "Request Now"