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Original plans do not always work out as intended. Goals change over time, new features are introduced. The modern world is an ever-changing one. You decide to migrate Prism Central VM (or even all three of them in case of a Scale Out PC deployment) to a different container but alas see no ‘migrate’ button. You can still do it.

  1. Find VM disk files
  2. Power off the VM/VMs
  3. Create a new Image for each VM disk 
  4. Create a new VM/VMs using acli or using Prism UI. Use image created in Step 3 as a source for the disk.
  5. Power on new VM/VMs and check functionality. If static IP address was used you may need to manually configure it one more time.
  6. Delete old VM if it is not needed anymore
  7. Delete Image if it is not needed anymore

That’s right, these are the same steps used for migration of a regular (User VM) between containers.

For a detailed process with commands and screenshots refer to KB-2663 AHV | How to move VMs between containers within an AHV cluster