Advice on upgrading to VCenter 4.1

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• Upgrade to vCenter 5.1 to 6

  Hello

  Received a customer request to improve environment vsphere 5.1 to 6. Upgrade include below.

  Please suggest what is the best practice for upgrade. Should I put the host to vcenter first level, then vclient, Update Manager. What things should be verified/backed up before upgrading.

  1 Vcenter

  2 Vclient

  3. Update Manager

  4 host

  Thanks in advance.

  Manky

  Your order of upgrade look OK and I recommend that you take a look at these KB articles for some best practices:

  VMware KB: Upgrading recommended vcenter Server 6.0

  VMware KB: Best practice to install or upgrade to VMware ESXi 6.0

  If you have any other VMware products installed, take a look here for the update sequence: VMware KB: update of the sequence for vSphere 6.0 and their compatible VMware product

• Upgrade to vcenter 5.5 to 6.0

  Hello

  I tried to improve windows Vcenter 5.5 with SSO to Vcenter 6.0 with controller platform, but when I ran the installer, only sso-to-platform controller has been upgraded.

  In the installer first window was written: "another 5.x products are also detected on this machine but will not be upgraded." After you install the controller platform, all the old 5.5 services have been uninstalled, but when I tried to rerun the installer - I could only to remove controller platform.

  In this case, I uninstalled old vcenter earlier and tried to install the new version, I can't do that, cause, I was able to not use of old db vcenter.

  Could you give some ideas what is wrong and what is the workaround?

  THX

  I solved my problem of last upgrade vcenter 5.5 u2 u3, I have successfully upgraded to vcenter 6.0 u1.

• The upgrade to vCenter 5 foundation

  Hello, everyone!

  I have several questions about upgrading to vCenter 5 foundation:

  (1) is editing Foundation vCenter is frowned upon in vSphere 6?

  (2) If a client vCenter Foundation 5 license and valid SnS, can it move its vCenter server to vCenter 6 Foundation?

  (3) if the customer has vCenter Foundation 5 license and SnS validates that lisenses must purchase for upgrade to vsphere 6?

  Please take a look at VMware KB: law Mapping for vSphere and vCenter Server which contains the official answer to your questions.

  André

• The upgrade to vCenter

  I'm about to upgrade our cluster of vSphere ESXi 5 to 5.5, but before I did I wanted to confirm that the upgrade to vCenter there is no downtime for virtual machines hosted.  I don't plan any, but wanted to make sure that no one had met something unexpected.

  Tony

  You do not wait to have a downtime of any virtual machines hosted by the upgrade to vCenter.

  If you upgraded to v5.0, then you also need to install VMware Single Sign On (SSO), which was introduced to vSphere 5.1.

• Upgrade to vCenter 5.0 to 5.5 - agent backward compatibility?

  I'm moving from 5.0 to 5.5.  As I did this is that I have a VM vCenter standalone.  I cloned it (run sysprep, etc.) and then upgraded the clone to not touch anything we have in production.

  When asked to upgrade the agents on the hosts, I chose that I have them will modernize manually at a later date.

  So first of all the question, are backward compatible with 5.0 agents?  Or once that I upgrade, only vCenter 5.5 will be able to connect?

  What is the best way to return to agent 5.0 if I have problems after upgrading to 5.5 agent?

  In my client web vCenter 5.5, I'll try to add the hosts when even just to see if there is a connectivity (understand an error message could say that much) but I don't see a way to add them manually.  It appears when I select hosts, he starts searching for them (and can't find anything that is what I expected).

  I want to just make sure that what seems to behave correctly because there is no agent 5.5 host out there.

  Thank you much for the help.

  vCenter Server 5.5 supports the hosts of version 4.x and later... There is no need restoration agent and you can still run the vCenter Agent pre-upgrade Checker host before upgrading the server vCenter Server.

• upgrade to vCenter 5.0 to 5.5

  I went through the documentation for the upgrade to vCenter to 5.5, and it sounds simple enough. However, I can't find much info regarding to 5.2 skyline view and I'm not sure that the upgrade to vCenter 5.5 will on that?  Can someone shed some light on this.

  Thank you!

  Hello

  If you upgrade your server vCenter to 55, seen 5.2 will break, use this link to find the compatibility between vCenter server and Vmware view

  VMware product interoperability matrices

• Upgrade to vCenter 5.1.0 to 5.5.0 request admin password!

  Hi all

  We rely on the execution of an upgrade soon vcenter 5.1.0 to 5.5.0, a colleague who has already installed 5.1.0 doesn't remember definition the [email protected] SSO etc password.

  It is advised that it has been saved as long as its domain account on the domain but is not sure that he set the password. If I'm upgrading the instance of vCenter should I use the same password to vCenter?

  We are currently setup as directors of vCenter on our field and can connect to the client vsphere with our creds, my main question is that I would be able to set a new password for the user of [email protected] during the upgrade?

  Yes this means you can upgrade now. If you are prompted you can enter the password for admin@system-domain. Yes it will be grey and the only password must be entered.

  If you have found my answers helpful please consider giving points by selecting useful and accurate responses

• Upgrade to vcenter server 5.1 without interrupting display connections

  Dear Experts,

  We need to upgrade the server vcenter to 5.1. VMware Server connection view won't

  The ESX servers become 5.1 as well

  Work with

  -vmare vcenter server 5.0

  -connection to the server view vmare 5.0 (no linked clone, automated pool)

  -ESXi 5.0

  Plan:

  -In place move vcenter server 5.0 to vcenter server 5.1

  Question:

  -Could we perform the upgrade from vcenter without interrupting the view vmare machines?

  -Is that I have to restart the server view connection manager

  -During the upgrade, will be the loose connection to their machines?

  -During the upgrade, the user will be able to authenticate, start their machines?

  Thank you for your support

  Wines

  [email protected]

  Dear Experts,

  -Could we perform the upgrade from vcenter without interrupting the view vmare machines?

  -Is that I have to restart the server view connection manager

  -During the upgrade, will be the loose connection to their machines?

  -During the upgrade, the user will be able to authenticate, start their machines?

  Thank you for your support

  Wines

  1: Yes

  2: no

  3: no

  4: depends on what policies of power you are using.  Since vCenter is going to be offline you won't be able to start and stop machines.  The best thing is to change your feeding strategy for always under tension and ensure that all machines are available during the interview of vCenter.

• The upgrade to vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 to 5.1 error

  Hello

  I'm trying to upgrade our vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 device and continue to operate in the following error message:

  Export DB error

  Thu, December 6, 2012 08:47:33 + 0000 * ERROR: cannot run command ' / etc/va/upgrade/pre-scripts/02_embedded_db.sh' 8 *.

  This error is located in upgrade.log.

  I'm following the steps in upgrade as outline here:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2033990

  Has anyone encountered this problem?

  See you soon.

  Hello

  I couldn't find a solution and ended up in the development of a new device and the migration of guests on.

• upgrades of vcenter 5.0.1b to 5.0.2 (5.0 update 2) includes the schema of database update/upgrade?

  upgrades of vcenter 5.0.1b to 5.0.2 (5.0 update 2) includes the schema of database update/upgrade?

  Hello

  I'd be surprised if there is one, but have you checked with the database audit tool?

  http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2004286 - mentions not required for minor updates but still should be able to run it.

  Many tx

• the upgrade to vCenter 5.1.0b and SSL certificates

  someone knows if this minor upgrade will be stomp on the SSL CA (SSO, inventory, vCenter, Crossover, etc.) the certificates that we have thoroughly improved when we went from 4.1 directly to 5.1.0a?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Your existing certificate will be in place while you perform the upgrade to vCenter server and after upgrade too.

  Concerning

  Mohammed

• Impossible to deploy the model after upgrading to vCenter v4_1

  Hi all

  I updated vCenter Server from version 4.0 to v4.1 and re-registers the hosts.
  Virtual machines are working well and are able to collect data on performance.

  However, when I tried to deploy the model, error occurred and failed to deploy the model.

  (This model were made to vCenter v4.0 environment, before moving on to vCenter v4.1).

  My client needs deploy the model so that it can create a new server next week...

  I looked to the top of the Knowledge Base and found the following information.

  ----------------------------------------------------

  Knockout No. 1036224
  VMware KB after upgrading to vCenter Server 4_0 to 4_1, deployment of a model with a comments customization fails

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & externalId = 1036224 & sliceId = 1 & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & dialogID = 321118019 & StateID = 1 0 321114529

  ----------------------------------------------------

  If there is anyone who has solved this problem by following the procedures written in this KB, could you tell me at what level you updated VMware tools for?
  In addition, was the update of the virtual hardware to solve this problem?
  (I hope that the material of the VM is v7, which is the last for ESXv.4.0, update the virtual hardware is not required in my environment :)

  Thanks for you information in advance!

  
  < environment >
  Before the upgrade: vCenter Server * v4.0*, ESX v4.0.0, v7 (latest) of Virtual Machine hardware,.
  After upgrade: vCenter Server * v4.1*, ESX v4.0.0, v7 (latest) of Virtual Machine hardware
  (I've specifically updated only the vCenter server and ESX and VM(Windows/Linux) are not updated).

  Hello

  Try to convert the template to a virtual machine, then new - VM model.

  Sounds strange, but it works for us

• The upgrade to vCenter Question DB

  I'll create a new server vCenter for v5 instead of upgrading my current v 4.1.  The Act of installing vCenter 5 and say things to use my current DB upgade the DB?  Or do I need to upgrade my vCenter 4.1 for the DB upgrade, and then create the new server and that it points to the DB?

  No, you do not have update the vcenter server - when you connect the vCenter Server 5 to the existing database, he will see the database must be updated.

• View Connection Manager is unable to connect to vCenter after upgrade to vCenter 5.0

  Our upgrade to vCenter Server 5.0 went smoothly and that our environment is transferred to ESXi 5.0.   However, since the upgrade our environment view seems not to be connected to vCenter.  If I go to view administrator > Configuration > servers and change the entry for our vCenter Server I get a connection failure message when you click "OK".

  I checked that the username and password specified to connect to vCenter administrator mode are correct.

  4.6 and earlier versions is not supported and will not work with vSphere 5 (look on the VMware compatibility matrix). I am bitten by this before so I checked that before even thinking about updating to ESXi 5. You need to wait seen 5.0 for compatibility with ESXi 5.