Quick Migration without vcenter

[Jois]

Hi,
I have a question about Quick Migration. Does this work if vcenter sever is down? Isn't it dependent on vcenter snapshots?

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Jois,

If you have vCenter Server added to the console and run your jobs through this connection, then jobs will fail with a connection error. In order to migrate VMs when vCenter Server is down, you can add individual hosts to the backup console and run Quick Migration jobs.

Thanks!

[Jois]

OK. Can I have both vcenter (and there all ESXi hosts) and individual hosts registered at the same time? Or do I have to remove the vcenter connection before register individual hosts?

[foggy]

You can have them added both ways, just be sure to use host's IP addresses to add them as standalone, if vCenter is added via DNS name (or vice versa).