Best practices for upgrading from 2.5u5 to vCenter 4.1

Hello

We are currently running a vCenter 2.5 5 update on Windows 2003 32-bit Standard that we need to upgrade to vCenter 4. Unfortunately the latest version 4.1 needs a 64 bit OS...

What is the best practice to update our vCenter 4.1 and keep all performance data? I suppose we ought to do it in severalsteps or not?

(1) vCenter 4.0 Update 2 update

(2) a copy of the updated vCenter database backup

(3) to perform a new installation of Windows 2008 64-bit

(4) to perform a new installation of vCenter 4.0 Update 2

(5) to restore the database

(6) update for vCenter 4.1

Is this correct or am I missing something? Is there a more easy/better way?

Any help appreciated.

Hello.

KO 1022104 contains best practices, and the Upgrade Guide is also a great resource to use for this upgrade planning.  Follow the steps in the Upgrade Guide and everything should go smoothly.

This is a really difficult list of steps, confirmed by the Upgrade Guide:

01 build of new VMS 64-bit for vCenter

02. prep new vCenter VM for connectivity / SQL dependencies

03. backup of the existing database.

04 data backup current vCenter using Data Migration tool

05 use the data migration tool to start the setup of the vCenter server and restore the configuration of the server vCenter to the destination machine.

06 turn off from the old server vCenter.

07 restore the vCenter Server Configuration and installing vCenter Server on the new server

08 updated vCenter Server name of Plug-Ins (if the new vCenter has a different name)

09. test cycle

Good luck!

Tags: VMware

Similar Questions

  • best practices for loading the swf file

    Greetings,

    Using CS5 AS2

    I am creating a website in flash (all files are in a directory/folder on SharePoint) and want to make sure that what seems to work well is recommended.

    I have an index.swf with many buttons that will take the user to landing pages/content/other SWFs. On these various buttons, I have the script...

    (release) {loadMovieNum ("name.swf", 0) ;}}                I could also just do {loadMovie ("name.swf", 0) ;} ?}

    Transitions film nicely name.swf and on this page, I have a button that returns the user to the index.swf...

    (release) {loadMovieNum ("index.swf", 0) ;}}   Things back to index.swf nicely and the user can chose to go to a different landing page.

    It seems that I am on the right track, BC., nothing's wrong? but want to check out. I'm following best practices for moving from one swf to another within a Web site?

    Thanks for the help or confirmation!

    You are welcome.

  • Best practices for Smartview when upgrading from Excel 2003 to Excel 2007?

    Anyone know the best practice for Smartview during the upgrade from Excel 2003 to Excel 2007?


    Current users have Microsoft Excel 2003 with Smartview 9.3.1.2.1.003.

    Computers are upgraded to Microsoft Excel 2007.


    What is the best practice for Smartview in this situation?

    1. do nothing with Smartview and just install Excel 2007.

    2. install Excel 2007 and then uninstall and reinstall Smartview

    3 uninstall Smartview, Excel 2007 installation and then install Smartview

    4 something else?


    Thank you!

    We went with option 1 and it worked very well. Be aware that OAS Treaty substantially slower in Excel 2007 to 2003. Many users have been/is unhappy about the switch. We have not tested SV v11 yet, so I don't know if it has improved performance with Excel 2007 or not (hopefully it does).

  • I'm looking for help to share best practices to upgrade the Site Recovery Manager (SRM), if someone can summarize the preparatory tasks?

    I'm looking for help to share best practices to upgrade the Site Recovery Manager (SRM), if someone can summarize the preparatory tasks?

    Hello

    Please check the content below, you may find useful.

    Please refer to the URL: Documentation VMware Site Recovery Manager for more detailed instructions.

    Important

    Check that there is no cleanup operation pending on recovery plans and there is no problem of configuration for the virtual machines that protects the Site Recovery Manager.

    1 all the recovery plans are in ready state.

    2 the protection status of all protection groups is OK.

    3 the status of the protection of all the individual virtual machines in the protection groups is OK.

    4 the recovery of all groups of protection status is ready.

    5. If you have configured the advanced settings in the existing installation, note settings you configured before the upgrade.

    6 the vCenter local and remote server instances must be running when you upgrade the Site Recovery Manager.

    7 upgrade all components Server vCenter Site Recovery Manager on a site until you upgrade vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager on the other site.

    8 download the setup of Site Recovery Manager file in a folder on the machines to be upgraded the Site Recovery Manager.

    9 make sure no other facilities-\no updates windows restarts done shoud

    Procedure:

    1. connect to the machine on the protected site on which you have installed the Site Recovery Manager.

    2. backup the database of Site Recovery Manager by using the tools that offers the database software.

    3. (optional) If you upgrade of Site Recovery Manager 5.0.x, create a 64-bit DSN.

    4 upgrade the instance of vCenter Site Recovery Manager server that connects to vCenter Server 5.5.

    If you upgrade a vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager 4.1.x, you upgrade the instances of vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager server in the correct sequence until you can upgrade to Site Recovery Manager 5.5.

    a upgrade vCenter Server 4.1.x to 5.0.x server.

    b Update Site Recovery Manager of 4.1.x to 5.0.x.

    c upgrade server vCenter Server 5.0.x to 5.5.

    Please let me know if it helped you or not.

    Thank you.

  • Just improved m tips on best practices for sharing files on a Server 2008 std.

    The field contains about 15 machines with two domain controllers, one's data is the app files / print etc...  I just upgraded from 2003 to 2008 and want to get advice on best practices for the establishment of a group of file sharing. Basically I want each user to have their their own records, but also a staff; folder. Since I am usually accustomed to using windows Explorer, I would like to know if these actions can be done in the best conditions. Also I noticed on 2008 there is a feature of contacts. How can it be used? I would like to message or send an email to users their file locations. Also, I want to implement an admin at a lower level to handle the actions without making them far in on the server, not sure.

    I read a certain bbut I don't like test direct more because it can cause problems. So basically a way short and neat to manage shares using the MMC, as well as the way that I approach their mail from the server of their actions. Maybe what kind of access cintrol or permissions are suitable also for documents. Also how can I have them use office templates without changing the format of the model.

    THX

    g

    Hello 996vtwin,

    Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Answers site. The question you have posted is related to Windows Server and would be better suited to the Windows Server TechNet community. Please visit the link below to find a community that will support what ask you:

    http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/WindowsServer

    Hope this helps J

    Adam
    Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
    Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think

  • I would like to know the "best practices" for unplugging my computer permanently to the internet and other updates.

    Thank you for taking the time to read this. I would like to know the "best practices" for unplugging my computer permanently to the internet and other updates. I thought I would do a clean install of Windows XP, install my Microsoft Works again and nothing else. I would like to effectively transforming my computer into a word processor. He continues more and more slow. I get blue screen errors, once again. I received excellent Microsoft Support when it happened before, but since my computer is around 13 years, I think it is not worth the headache to try to remedy. I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, and my computer would not be able to upgrade. Please, can someone tell me how to make it only a word processor without updates or internet connection? (I already have a new computer with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, it's the computer that I use. The old computer is just sitting there and once a week or so I updates.) I appreciate your time, thank you!

    original title: old computer unstable

    http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-XP/help/Setup/install-Windows-XP

    http://www.WindowsXPHome.WindowsReinstall.com/sp2installxpcdoldhdd/indexfullpage.htm

    http://aumha.NET/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=44636

    Clean install XP sites
    You can choose which site to reinstall XP.

    Once it is installed, then you do not have to connect what anyone, however, some updates may be required to perform the work, test this by installing work and see if you get an error msg. Except that you should be fine.

  • HP stream 11-d008tu: best practices for migrating to Windows 10?

    Hey there, I have a HP flow 11-d0008tu and received the notification I can upgrade to Windows 10. I want to do a clean install with a downloaded ISO but knowledge first of all, it is better to upgrade so that you get the activation done.

    Can someone give me some ideas on best practices for the upgrade? The stream has only 30GB HD so I have no recovery disk, I'll just do a recovery later on USB or SD card. When I do the upgrade can deselect recovery option or delete?

    Also, any other suggestions appreciated, especially which helps make effective for small HD

    See you soon

    Hi, I posted an installation procedure for Windows 10 fresh for the Tablet HP Stream here.  Also, I have a laptop 11 flow but do not have that yet. I think it must be the same because they both the same drive of mem 32 GB Hynix. A change would you probably want to use the 64-bit instead of 32-bit Windows 10 ISO file, the Tablet has only 1 GB of RAM.

  • Best practices for vsphere 5.1

    where can I find the doc more up-to-date about berries EQL configuration / best practices with vmware vsphere 5.1

    Hello

    Here is a link to a PDF file that covers best practices for ESXi and EQL.

    Best EqualLogic practices ESX

    en.Community.Dell.com/.../20434601.aspx

    This doc mentions specifically that the storage Heartbeat VMKernel port is no longer necessary with ESXi v5.1.  VMware has corrected the problem that made it necessary.

    If you add it to a 5.1 system it will not hurt.  It will take an IP address for each node.

    If you upgrade 5.0 to 5.1, you can delete it later.

    Here is a link to VMware which addresses this issue and has links to other Dell documents which confirm also that it is fixed in 5.1.

    KB.VMware.com/.../Search.do

    Kind regards

  • What are the best practices for creating only time data types, and not the Date

    Hi gurus,

    We use 12 c DB and we have a requirement to create the column with datatype of time only, if someone please describe what are the best practices for the creation of this.

    I would strongly appreciate ideas and suggestions.

    Kind regards
    Ranjan

    Hello

    How do you intend to use the time?

    If you are going to combine with DATEs or timestamps from a other source, then an INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND or NUMBER may be better.

    Will you need to perform arithmetic operations on time, for example, increase the time to 20%, or take an average?   If so, the NUMBER would be preferable.

    You are just going to display it?  In this case, DAY INTERVAL in SECONDS, DATE or VARCHAR2 would work.

    As Blushadow said, it depends.

  • Best practices for building an infrastructure of APEX for 12 c

    Hi all

    Have we not the docs on best practices for building an infrastructure of APEX?

    Which means, for the production, it is acceptable to use Embedded PL as the listener, or we stick with the Listenr tested on Weblogic?

    Thank you

    Hi JCGO,.

    JCGO wrote:

    Hi all

    Have we not the docs on best practices for building an infrastructure of APEX?

    Which means, for the production, it is acceptable to use Embedded PL as the listener, or we stick with the Listenr tested on Weblogic?

    Thank you

    I agree with Scott's response '' it depends. '' It starts with the appropriate choice of a web listening port.

    You should discourage use EPG facility based in Production environments in accordance with the recommendation of the Oracle.

    Reference: See security considerations when you use the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway section.

    ADR (APEX Listener) + Oracle Weblogic Server sounds good, if you already have tried and have appropriate expertise to manage it.

    Also, you might consider what other facilities ADR based ADR + Apache Tomcat with Apache HTTP Server reverse proxy as described here:

    Dimitri Gielis Blog (Oracle Application Express - APEX): Prepare the architecture for the APEX 5.0 upgrade

    But it depends on Apache skills, you have within your organization.

    I hope this helps!

    Kind regards

    Kiran

  • Best practices for the integration of the Master Data Management (MDM)

    I work on the integration of MDM with Eloqua and are looking for the best approach to sync data lead/Contact changes of Eloqua in our internal MDM Hub (output only). Ideally, we would like that integration practically in real time but my findings to date suggest that there is no option. Any integration will result in a kind of calendar.

    Here are the options that we had:

    1. "Exotic" CRM integration: using internal events to capture and queue in the queue changes internal (QIP) and allows access to the queue from outside Eloqua SOAP/REST API
    2. Data export: set up a Data Export that is "expected" to run on request and exteernally annex survey via the API SOAP/REST/in bulk
    3. API in bulk: changes in voting that has happened since the previous survey through the API in bulk from Eloqua outside (not sure how this is different from the previous option)

    Two other options which may not work at all and who are potentially antimodel:

    • Cloud connector: create a campaign questioning changes to schedule and configure a connector of cloud (if possible at all) to notify MDM endpoint to query contact/lead "record" of Eloqua.
    • "Native" integration CRM (crazy): fake of a native CRM endpoint (for example, Salesforce) and use internal events and external calls to Eloqua push data into our MDM

    Issues related to the:

    1. What is the best practice for this integration?
    2. Give us an option that would give us the close integration in real-time (technically asynchronous but always / event-based reminder)? (something like the outgoing in Salesforce e-mail)
    3. What limits should consider these options? (for example API daily call, size response SOAP/REST)

    If you can, I would try to talk to Informatica...

    To imitate the integrations of native type, you use the QIP and control what activities it validated by internal events as you would with a native integration.

    You will also use the cloud api connector to allow you to set up an integration CRM (or MDM) program.

    You have fields of identification is added objects contact and account in Eloqua for their respective IDs in the MDM system and keep track of the last update of MDM with a date field.

    A task scheduled outside of Eloqua would go to a certain interval and extract the QAP changes send to MDM and pull the contacts waiting to be sent in place of the cloud connector.

    It isn't really much of anything as outgoing unfortunately use Messaging.  You can send form data shall immediately submit data to Server (it would be a bit like from collections of rule of integration running of the steps in processing of forms).

    See you soon,.

    Ben

  • Best practices for HP DL385p G8

    Trying to find documentation for the implementation of a HP DL385p G8 for VMware Server. I would like to find a guide to best practices for this server? Been looking for but not found anything. I would like to find things are should hyperthreading turned on and so on. I use the ESXI from HP image for pilots, that all work but just want to find the settings.

    Thank you

    Hello

    you will find on this blog: BIOS settings in a VMware ESX (i) / vSphere environment. VirtualKenneth & #039; s Blog - hqVirtual | Quality rental a detailed explanation on all the BIOS settings and why you should enable or disable it.

    hope that helps.

  • Best practices for SQL

    I started a discussion a few weeks there is movement .vmdks from the supplier of storage to another in regard to and got some great answers.  What I didn't ask was if the hard contain databases SQL is there special considerations when you cut storage EMC VNX (pools versus grpoups raid) or when the data store is created in vCenter.  I know that this may be more an EMC forum question but maybe someone in the world of VMware has a recommendation or can provide a link to best practices for the VNX.  Thank you.

    Post edited by: vmroyale to change the case of SQL

    Have you seen the document "using EMC VNX with VMware vSphere storage solutions"?

  • vSpere 5 Networking of best practices for the use of 4 to 1 GB NIC?

    Hello

    I'm looking for a networking of best practices for the use of 4-1 GB NIC with vSphere 5. I know there are a lot of good practice using 10 GB, but our current config does support only 1 GB. I need to include the management, vMotion, Virtual Machine (VM) and iSCSi. If there are others you would recommend, please let me know.

    I found a diagram that resembles what I need, but it's for 10 GB. I think it works...

    vSphere 5 - 10GbE SegmentedNetworks Ent Design v0_4.jpg(I had this pattern HERE - rights go to Paul Kelly)

    My next question is how much of a traffic load is each object take through the network, percentage wise?

    For example, 'Management' is very small and the only time where it is in use is during the installation of the agent. Then it uses 70%.

    I need the percentage of bandwidth, if possible.

    If anyone out there can help me, that would be so awesome.

    Thank you!

    -Erich

    Without knowing your environment, it would be impossible to give you an idea of the uses of bandwidth.

    That said if you had about 10-15 virtual machines per host with this configuration, you should be fine.

    Sent from my iPhone

  • Best practices for the compression of the image in dps

    Hello! I read up on best practices for the compression of the image in dps and I read the asset from the source of panoramas, sequences of images, Pan and zoom images and audio skins is resampled not downloading. You will need to resize them and compress them before deleting the in your article, because the dps do not do it for you. Hey can do!

    So Im also read as he active source of slideshows, scrolling images, and buttons ARE resampled as PNG images. Does this mean that DPS will compress for you when you build the article? Does this say I shouldn't worth going bother to resize these images at all? I can just pop in 300 DPI files 15 MB used in the print magazine and dps will compress their construction article - and this will have no effect on the size of the file?

    And this is also the case with static background images?


    Thanks for your help!

    All images are automatically resampled to based on the size of the folio you do. You can put in any image resolution you want, it's not serious.

    Neil

Maybe you are looking for

  • MacBook Pro(MID-2012):Issues after Upgrading to El Capitan

    I use Macbook Pro mid-2012 version. After upgrading to El Capitan, I am facing a lot of questions. (1) the DMG files does not open. said hdiutil attach has busy resource failed. (2) my Macbook Pro will not stop completely. (3) my systems updates inst

  • iMessage message unread repeatedly brands

    When playback immediately an iMessage iMessage contact one marks the message as unread even after that you answered. Currently running the latest IOS - 9.2.1 on an iPhone5, have restarted the phone and removed the contact but did not address the issu

  • How do we install the all-in-one for my photosmart 7280

    I just bought a new macbook with mac OS X 10.9.4 and I just cannot print pictures of her on my photosmart 7280. the generic driver provided in USS also seem to, I only print in B & W. I can't understand how to scan or use any other feature that I hav

  • Inateck BR1001 installed OK but does not appear as a playback device

    Hello I am using an Inateck BR1001 bluetooth streamer in Windows 8 to listen to music from Windows Media Player to my external speakers. Now the device Inateck disappeared from the "playback devices" list although it is always visible, paired and con

  • Windows 8 system refresh

    Hello recently I had problems with my windows 8 so I think it's refreshing. I know that that means he retains my data but reinstall windows. But I don't have a windows 8 with my PC I have it improved 7. My question is if I update windows does that me