Anyone ever move Cloud Connectors from one datacenter to another? Long story short management is under pressure to complete a project to bring a new datacenter online. Against the advice of internal engineers, management is moving ahead with a consultant plan to migrate all VMs including Cloud Connectors and MCS targets as well as other Citrix infra to a new datacenter overnight. I think for the most part the StoreFront servers, NetScalers doing internal HDX proxy and LB, and FAS servers will restore and function okay. I am worried about the Cloud Connectors popping up on a new public Internet address. Aside from the Cloud Connectors going sideways I envision the MCS targets having power mangement problems moving from cluster to cluster. The consultant plan isn't the way I would go about it because the risk is too much for me to bear, but I have to play nice. If I had it my way, I would build out all new infra servers in the new datacenter and create new MCS clones. Are my Cloud Connector fears unfounded and they can move from IP to IP?

Create a new resource location with new cloud connectors. Setup your MCS hosting on the new location. Copy over just your maintenance machine and create a new machine catalog in the new DC and add it to the existing DG. Also if you are using UPM or FSLogix, setup a new profile share in the new DC and setup the profile share before you go live. They keeping the old DC for active:active? Or is it a full migration.

Your plan is exactly what I want to do. They plan to move the IP subnet to the new datacenter, so anything that would remain, must have a new internal IP in advance of the move.

I wouldn't do that. I would want a dedicated Subnet. Otherwise broadcasts are going to severely reduce your datacenter to datacenter bandwidth.

🫠 My hands are a little tied. We're still meeting about it and I'm going to be adamant to let me build out the cloud connectors, attach the new hosting, and provision new MCS clones.

Yeah, going into meetings where you need to push back always stinks if someone thinks you are calling their baby ugly. Luckily though you have the entire experience of the internet, and us neck beards to help back you up. 😉

To follow up and put a pin on this... the cloud connectors did not function correctly after being recovered in the new datacenter. I needed to remove them from DaaS and re-install one by one. StoreFront servers, FAS, and the NetScaler VPX's functioned fine.