Here is my situation and what I want to do:
We currently have 6 ESX hosts ESX01, ESX02, ESX03, ESX04, ESX05, ESX06
The first 4 are licensed for Vmotion and last 2 are not. These are all Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade servers, ESX05 is the newest one and it's a dual 3.6Ghz CPU setup with 16GB RAM and all the others are dual 3Ghz CPU w/ 4GB RAM. We have some other new ones that match the specs of the that 3.6Ghz one so want I'm wanting to do is migrate everything off of ESX04 onto ESX05 then swap out ESX04 with one of the faster blades like I did with ESX05 already. Now the only problem I'm facing in doing this is I have migrated all the VMs off of ESX04 but the remaining one is VirtualCenter as we have that in a VM. I cannot figure out how to get this off of ESX04 and moved to ESX05 since ESX05 doesn't have a Vmotion license and we can't buy anymore, and I obviously can't shut it off then right click it in VirtualCenter and migrate it like I did the others since shutting it down will kill off VirtualCenter.
So my question is, with our setup, how can I get this VirtualCenter VM migrated over to ESX05?
My other option is I could simply shut ESX04 down and swap out the CPUs and RAM in that ESX04 with the faster CPU and more RAM but I'm not sure if that would be OK to do and maybe that would just be more simple?