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Join a Linked Mode Group After Installation

After installing vCenter Server, you can join a vCenter Server to a Linked Mode group.
Prerequisites
See "Linked Mode Prerequisites for vCenter Server,"
N vCenter Server does not support Linked Mode groups that contain both version 5.x and pre-5.0
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versions of vCenter Server. Similarly, vCenter Server does not support Linked Mode groups that contain
different 5.x versions of vCenter Server or different versions of vCenter Single Sign-On. After all 5.x vCenter
Server and vCenter Single Sign-On instances in a Linked Mode group are upgraded to the same 5.x version,
you can rejoin them.
Procedure
1 Select Start > All Programs > VMware > vCenter Server Linked Mode Configuration.
2 Click Next.
3 Select Modify linked mode configuration and click Next.
4 Click Join this vCenter Server instance to an existing linked mode group or another instance and
click Next.
5 Enter the server name and LDAP port number of a remote vCenter Server instance that is a member of
the group and click Next.
If you enter an IP address for the remote server, the installer converts it into a fully qualified domain
name.
6 If the vCenter Server installer detects a role conflict, select how to resolve the conflict.
Option
Yes, let VMware vCenter Server
resolve the conflicts for me
No, I'll resolve the conflicts myself
A conflict results if the joining system and the Linked Mode group each contain a role with the same
name but with different privileges.
7 Click Finish.
vCenter Server restarts. Depending on the size of your inventory, the change to Linked Mode might
take from a few seconds to a few minutes to complete.
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Action
Click Next.
The role on the joining system is renamed to vcenter_namerole_name, where
vcenter_name is the name of the vCenter Server system that is joining the
Linked Mode group, and role_name is the name of the original role.
To resolve the conflicts manually:
a Using the vSphere Web Client, log in to one of the vCenter Server
systems using an account with Administrator privileges.
b Rename the conflicting role.
c Close the vSphere Web Client session and return to the vCenter Server
installer.
d Click Back and click Next.
The installation continues without conflicts.
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