We initially had an outside consulting company setup our pair of ESXi 5.0 hosts and vCenter 5.0. They opted for the vCenter Appliance instead of a server I guess because it was easier to drop in and go. Regardless, now that I have a little more experience with VMware I was wondering if I could switch over to the regular vCenter Server instead. The appliance is Linux based which I'm not very familiar with, it doesn't seem to get updated as quickly as the server and I have seen a lot of posts regarding issues with it (though tbh I haven't had much problems other than the very occasional crash). The appliance is using an internal DB and I'm not sure how you go about transferring the data.
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