Re: Horizon View 5.2: migrate vCenter to another computer, dedicated pools only

Time consuming for sure, but this is the way I'd tackle what you're trying to do. If you're using persistent disks for users, I don't have a good answer and you should likely engage some migration help from professional services.

1. Upgrade View to a version that supports the version of vCenter you're moving to
2. Add the new vCenter to the View Instance
3. Create a new Manual Pool
4. Ensure you have at least one set of shared storage between the new and old vCenter Server
5. Put some View VMs to be migrated on the shared storage between old and new vCenter Server
6. Steps 6-11 are for each VM/user (Yes, downtime required)
7. Remove from the View Admin Interface (do not delete)
8. Remove from the old vCenter inventory
9. Browse datastore and add to the new vCenter Inventory
10. Add VM manually to the new manual pool
11. Entitle the user to the new pool

Real world experience for me says if you have to do this with linked clones, you're better off building a new environment and simply copying over the golden images and updating them, since they'll likely require a tools update anyway. Then do a slight of hand switcheroo on migration day. I know this doesn't apply to your use case, but knowing can't hurt.

Update sequence for vSphere 5.5 and its compatible VMware products (2057795)

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2057795