After copying my vCenter server using ovftool, I watched it boot up and could see it said there was no configuration for eth1. When the MAC address changes, it will not update the config file automatically. Here's what to do: First of all go into the vSphere Client and connect

So, I needed to copy my vCenter Server Appliance over to another host. Obviously can't do that while it's switched on, and it takes care of the migrations in vSphere Client so what can we do? Download ovftool (I downloaded the Windows version) from http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/