This article provides the necessary steps to migrate your embedded VMware vCenter Single Sign-on deployment to an external VMware vCenter Single Sign-On deployment to prevent the upgrade to a deprecated topology that is not recommended by VMware for vSphere 6.0.
When all vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5 components are installed on the same machine, the VMware vCenter Single Sign-on 5.1/5.5 deployment type is
embedded. This occurs when vCenter Server is installed using the
Simple Install option or if each component is installed manually on the same machine.
When upgrading to vSphere 6.0, several configurations of vSphere 5.1/5.5 will be upgraded to a topology that has been deprecated.
This includes, but is not limited to:
- Two or more vCenter Server and vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) services installed on the same machine on the same SSO domain.
- An environment with these servers on the same SSO domain:
- One or more vCenter Server and vCenter SSO installed on the same machine
- One or more vCenter SSO installed on a dedicated machine
- One or more vCenter Server on a dedicated machine