{"id":311,"date":"2019-03-09T10:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T02:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylemcdonald.com.au\/?p=311"},"modified":"2019-06-09T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T08:17:34","slug":"vds-version-mismatches-during-cross-vcenter-migrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylemcdonald.com.au\/2019\/03\/09\/vds-version-mismatches-during-cross-vcenter-migrations\/","title":{"rendered":"vDS version mismatches during cross-vCenter migrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
While migrating VM’s between a 6.0 and 6.5 vCenter, I came across an error that stopped the migrations from happening. The error was “The destination distributed switch has a different version or vendor than the source distributed switch<\/strong><\/em>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comparing the vDS on both vCenters, they appeared to be the same version and both were using VMware’s own vDS. No Nexus 1000’s here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n After digging deeper, I found that the source vCenter vDS had a vendor of “VMware<\/em><\/strong>“. The destination vCenter vDS had a vendor of “VMware, Inc.<\/em><\/strong>” which matched https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2126851<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n While KB2126851 only mentions the 5.x versions of vCenter, my source had been upgraded in-place and so had kept the old 5.x vendor name. As I was going to decommission this vCenter, I didn’t want to risk any further issues that would impede the migration and so decided against the changes suggested in KB2126851.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It turns out that William Lam has blogged about a similar issue with differing vDS versions when migrating on-prem to cloud<\/a>. The vCenter Advanced Setting from his post also worked for my vendor mismatch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n This change needs to be done on both vCenters if you need to migrate in both directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While migrating VM’s between a 6.0 and 6.5 vCenter, I came across an error that stopped the migrations from happening. The error was “The destination distributed switch has a different version or vendor than the source distributed switch“. Comparing the Continue reading vDS version mismatches during cross-vCenter migrations<\/span>