Hi. We need to abandon the old (physical) vCenter Server and move everything to a new (virtual) one. It's currently on 5.0, but will be upgraded to 5.1 before the migration.
The problem is that all VMs (around 800 of them) are on vDS, and we don't want to do a cumbersome manual recreation of standard switches and manual migration of VMs/hosts from vDS->vSS->vDS.
In 5.1 there is a way to export/import vDS that should solve this problem, but in reality it doesn't seem to work (VMware KB: Cannot use the vDS Import function to migrate to new vCenter Server)
Are there any other clever (and not overly complicated and time consuming) ways to do the migration?