Move esxi hosts between vcenter datacenters without loosing vcenter history.

The standard way to move a host between vcetner datacenters would be to remove the host and readd it.  JDLangdon came up with a interesting question on trying to keep the historical data
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*note this does not apply to moving between different Vcenter instances.


So I have this host, 10.250.14.1 under datacenter 250DC
Suppose we want to move it to 0DC







Here is the historical data before moving it.
Its only been up for a few days, but you may want to move a host that’s been up for years.
A lot of data to loose.





Place the host in maintenance mode.









Move the host out of it's cluster









I was able to drag it into the new  datacenter


*it did fail the first time with "the operation is not supported on the object"
But then I tried again.