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• The ESXi 4.1.0 to 6.0 upgrade. -upgarde and best practices

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  As you said, you cannot upgrade host ESXi 4.x to 6.x, you must first upgrade 4.x to 5.x and then switch to 6.x

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  Check cheque and VMware hardware compatibility list if your server is listed.

  Although you'll have a 6 ESXi license kit, you can download ESXi 5.x and use it to upgrade process.

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  Backup-

  Before you begin the upgrade, make sure that you have backup of all VMs critics.

  Either you can download/export all VMs as OVF, or you can use Veeam's free edition to make the backup of virtual machines

  -Update

  You can join the server ESXi ISO Installer and boot server form ISO and update.

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  If you do not keep vmfs, all virtual machines will get deleted during the installation/upgrade process.

  Once you get ESXi Host upgrade to Upgrade VMFS 5.x version so that it can support 6.

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  If you have vCenter Update manager, use update reach the average upgrade easy it is to upgrade.

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• 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.

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  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.

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

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  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.

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

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

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  c upgrade server vCenter Server 5.0.x to 5.5.

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• 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...

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

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  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.

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  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

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  Thank you for poining, I guess I wrote too soon.

  Yes it takes the decomission.

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  (1) shut down the operating system on the blade,

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  (3) Decomission the blade of the UCSM (check the status on the tab of the WSF for the process)

  (4) to remove the blade from the current location,

  (5) move the blade into the slot again.

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  I would check the documents and let you know.

  . / Afonso