vCenter Upgrade

[angtl91]

We have a physical windows vCenter 6.7 & two SimpliVity ESXi hosts. We are planning to upgrade the vCenter to 7.0.

Since vCenter 7.0 is no longer support in Windows based, can we deploy the VCSA 7.0 in Simplivity ESXi hosts? Is there any issue we can foreseen other than we can't manage it via Simplivity plug-in if we shutdown the VCSA?

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[ICPMuenchen]

This is a quite easy going process. just use the migration/upgrade wizard of vCenter VCSA Setup. I also would suggest choosing one size bigger of the vcsa as recommended. then you are safe the next years regarding diskspace and ram etc. vcsa runs much better than the windows version. hence i would have recommended using the vcsa already years ago
 simplivity plugin needs to be installed manually afterwards.

Just make sure you regularly backup your vcenter server, and you are able doing a restore directly to one of your esxi hosts  or using quick restore (e.g. with veeam you can start up a vm directy from your backup). 

there are no concerns needed, from begin we ran vcenter server on windows and later vcsa always directly in our esx environment. in my opinion its much safer and more performant than using a dedicated local machine.