Moving standalone hosts to vCenter, what steps in VBR?

[s.eng]

Hi, I'm currently backing up VM's from Standalone Hosts in VBR. I'm moving these hosts (one at a time) into vCenter. What steps and in what order to take in VBR? (Veeam Support couldn't give me a straight answer)

Thanks

[foggy]

Hi Samuel, you can leave it as is and continue backing up VMs via standalone ESXi. However, if you decide to switch to backing up via vCenter, you would need to re-add VMs to the jobs, since their ID's will be different, which will result in full data read during the next job run.

[s.eng]

Thanks for your reply!

Yes, I'm also moving the backups to (going via) the vCenter. I'm pretty sure I need to remove the hosts from Standalone right? Cause of SSL cert et.c.? I guess VBR cannot have two references to the same host? And then do a Rescan (in VBR) of the vCenter?

[foggy]

There's no need to remove host entries, they won't affect anything.

[s.eng]

Thanks,

Ok, I see. I tried that in my lab but then I got an error msg in the Backup Job. "Error: Host 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' with type 'ESX' and parentId 'xxx' not found.". I then removed the host as "Standalone" and Rescanned the vCenter (in VBR). Then the job could run. I guess I thought this procedure was described in a KB or something.

[foggy]

It is just the fact that any infrastructure change requires a rescan. If you had left the host and done a rescan, it would still have fixed the issue.

[s.eng]

Ok, I see. So a single host can exist as both a Standalone and also inside a vCenter in VBR at the same time?

[foggy]

Correct.