ESX 3.0 to 3.5 upgrade and new WITHOUT

Our courses VMware environment consists of 2 ESX 3.0.1 hosts with VMotion. They share the storage on a San. Another physical server is used for Virtual Center 2.0.1. The whole environment was not properly Setup and we want to essentially from scratch, moving to ESX 3.5 U3 as well as to move the servers to another data center and a new NO. Our current plan is as follows:

Updated current host ESX 3.5 U3 and Virtual Center 2.5.

Install ESX 3.5 U3 on another temporary host, and move all the guests to this host.

Physically move the two ESX servers to the new data center and conenct again WITHOUT.

Make a fresh installation of ESX 3.5 U3 on hosts, configure new environment, test VMotion and ensure that everything works.

Move the temporary host to the new ESX environment guests.

Y at - it no gotcha with this plan. We want to use the 30 day ESX 3.5 trial on our temporary host, because we only licenses for 2 guests and only need to this host for migration as a temporary location to permanently keep our VM customers.

Looks pretty good, though, migration will provide less downtime by comparing the upgrade on the spot.  Be SURE to backup your virtual machines before.  New ESX 3.5 installation would be nice, unless you want to keep the old performance data.

1. install VC 2.5 from scratch with database thus created VUM.

2. install ESX 3.5 U3 and configure all settings and networking.

3 configure the cluster HA, VMotion and DRS.

4. disconnect the ESx 3.0.2 cluster hosts and add new cluster ESX 3.5 and VMware Tools upgrade

5 perform the same procedures until everything has been on ESX 3.5 U3.

If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'useful '. Thank you!!!

Kind regards

Stefan Nguyen

iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

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