Repoint 6.x vCenter to a new PSC

Since a vCenter has a connection to a single PSC it’s important to understand how to move between PSC’s and deploy new ones when old ones have failed. This article details this mobility and process.

Once installed check for working vCenter

Then login via ssh and check which PSC is being used

Let’s repoint it to psc2.griffiths.local

cmsso-util repoint --repoint-psc psc2.griffiths.local

Now we are pointing to psc2 at site1. In 6.0 you were able to repoint a vCenter to different site PSC’s this is no longer available in 6.5 (Yep no longer possible remember this trying to repoint can cause some really bad stuff in 6.5).

As you can see we have repointed the psc from 1 to 2 at the same site:

So what do you do when all your PSC’s at a site have failed? (Don’t have a single PSC at a site first off..) Or this:

Install a new PSC pointing to a remaining site psc we will use psc3 at site2 to create a new PSC5 at site1. In order to test this I shutdown psc1 and psc2 to simulate failures.

So we are creating:

After the PSC is installed it will replicate with psc3.griffiths.local only. We then can repoint vc1 to psc5 and rebuild missing psc’s at site1. We have to make sure PSC5 was deployed correctly first via visiting it’s webpage:

Now we can repoint the vc to psc5 at site1.