ESX 3.01 upgrade to ESXi 5.1

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• I upgraded to ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 ESxi now when I ping the esx host, it fails.

  I upgraded to ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 ESxi now when I ping the esx host, it fails.

  I was able to ping before the update. Test management system also fails to ping the default gateway.

  I sent a private message you, could answer you on this one here? Got iso's, he's now testing in my lab, but I don't have that kind of network cards, you will need to do the real test for me.

• Upgrading to ESX 3.5 host to ESXi 4.1 where the VCenter is installed on the guest system

  Hello

  I try to find measures to upgrade to ESX 3.5 host to ESXi 4.1 where the vCenter Server 4.1 is installed on the system of comments on this host.

  Any suggestions are welcome.

  Thank you

  Georgi

  Should I move the virtual machines from the first RAID at one of the others? Whipe then come out the scores and perform ESXi 4.1 installation?

  Yes, it's a way to do this.

  Unfortunately, the ESXi 4.1 installation wipe the disk to complete installation (or logical volume) as you have experienced. Assuming that "logical partitions VMFS" you mentioned are logical volumes actually created in the RAID configuration (presented as individual of the operating system disks), you can migrate the virtual machine that is currently stored on data store of the installation disk to a data store on one of the other logical disks and then install ESXi.

  André

• ESX 3.5 and 4.0 - how 'upgrade' to ESXi?

  OK, I looked through the documentation for vmware and ferretted through Google, but no one seems to have a straight answer, how to make 3.5/4.0 ESX to ESXi 4.1?  Can I use the Update Manager or do I have to each server a boot CD?  It kept all my virtual machines?  How to import the configuration of my ESX boxes for the new ESXi installation?

  The guide to migration of vmware ESXi is a waste of time, containing nothing else than garbage theoretical as well as a description of how ESXi running, I already know. What I need is a simple document that details how to do the actual upgrade!

  Help?

  JD

  CompTIA A + network +.

  VMware VCP 3

  Yes. If you install ESXi for flash player your VMFS will not be affected.

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• The upgrade to ESXi 4.1 with storage iSCSI software to ESXi 5.5

  I intend to upgrade ESXi 4.1 with which I have attached to ESXi 5.5 iSCSI software storage

  I've updated all my guests who were on the SAN storage with no problems.

  I would like to know that if it there's nothing I should take care before I update the host connected iSCSI to ESXi 5.5, as for the hosts with SAN attached storage I made to remove the cables of SAN before upgrading the host.

  Also, if all known problems, you will be informed during the upgrade to ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.5 with iSCSI Software storage, please let me know?

  If there is no different process to upgrade coz in ESXi 4.1 I do not see this link ports of iSCSI vmkernel ports software iSCSI but I know in ESXi5.5 we have to or I just launch a procedure of standard upgrade via the Update Manager and everything will be taken care?

  Thanks in advance

  With ESXi prior to version 5, linking ports had to be done via command line. However, if it has been configured correctly, you should be able to upgrade to ESXi 5.5 (assuming that the host has not been previously updated since version 3). BTW. the last time that I disconnected the host of storage for an upgrade has been with ESX 3.0.

  André

• ESX 4 confussion upgrade

  Hello all;

  Well as the title says, I'm really confused.

  I got vCenter 5.1 for 3 guests.  1 host has been implemented with VMware ESX4.1, build the 1363503.  I'm finally upgrading of the host, but I do research & find contradictory stories then maybe someone can help?

  On a different topic about DCUI, another Member pointed out that you can not upgrade, it had to be a new facility that is NOT an option because the guests are sharepoint, sql, web servers, etc..

  weinstein5 Jan 14, 2014 5:37 PM
  You can connect to the Service Console but keep in mind there is no way to do an in place upgrade from ESX to ESXi -either 4 or 5 - it has to be a fresh install -
  

  But if I google the topic, I find several results with:

  • vSphere 4.1 and 5.1 in place upgrade by using VMware Update manager - YouTube In this video, you will see that it starts to ESX 4.1 and ends with ESXi 5.1
  • How upgrade to ESXi 5.1 - YouTube In this video, you will see that it starts to ESX 4.1 and ends with ESXi 5.1
  • Migration ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.0 - VMadmin.co.uk This is a tutorial through the local installation of CD
  • Adrian Costea & amp; #039; s blog & amp; raquo; Upgrading ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.x using VMware Update Manager & lt; / title & gt; & l...   This is a tutorial using vCenter Update Manager

  Anyone can shed some light on this discussion?  I can't afford to lose all the guests for a new installation is not an option but I need to upgrade to 5.1.

  Thanks in advance!

  You know I'm wrong - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-55-upgrade-guide.pdf, Page 152

   

  Supported on ESXi 5.5 upgrades

  You can upgrade an ESXi 5.0.x and 5.1.x host directly ESXi ESXi 5.5 and in most cases, you can migrate a

  ESX 4.x or upgrade an ESXi 4.x host directly to ESXi 5.5.

  The details and the level of support for an upgrade or migration to version 4.x, ESX and ESXi hosts and

  version 5.0.x and 5.1.x ESXi hosts to ESXi 5.5 depend on the host to be upgraded and the upgrade method

  you are using.

• "No found compatible network adapter" Blade HP VirtualConnect upgrade to ESXi 5

  Hello

  I just upgraded a HP Proliant BL490c G6 of ESXi 4.1.0 to ESXi 5.0 U2. The host started OK but did not find the network interface cards. The exact error message at logon on the screen is "no compatible network adapter found. Please consult Hardware Compatibility Guide (HCG product) for supported cards. »

  The host uses HP Virtual Connect for networking.

  As a host ESXi 4 that there worked.

  Using Update Manager 5 it has been then upgraded to ESXi 5 using the Image of ESX Custom HP (HP - ESX - 5.0.2 - standard-iso build 914586), which is when he lost the network cards.

  (A similar upgrade of a G7 BL490c in the same chassis worked well)

  When the blade reached ESXi version 4.1 network cards appeared in the viclient like Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711E/NC532i 10 Gig Ethernet.

  A look at Versions of driver in HP provided images VMware ESX/ESXi http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware-esxi/driver_version.html shows that net-bnx2 - Version - 2.2.1l.v50.1 - 1 & net-bnx2x - Version - 1.72.54.v50.2 - 1 are both included in the image of the building.

  VirtualConnect firmware is version 3.15

  Can someone tell me what is wrong and how to fix it?

  See you soon

  Guy

  You must start the server blades with the "HP for ProLiant Service Pack CD" to update the firmware of the NETWORK adapter.

  Online firmware updates are also possible (using "Smart Components"), but unfortunately not for the network adapters.

  See my HP & VMware links page for the relevant download links.

  -Andreas

• Error after upgrade to ESXi 5 Update 1 on free version

  At all a ghettoVCBg2 got another run properly after the upgrade to ESXi 5u1 via vMA 5 when it's the free version?

  I have a couple of free machine and they are the only ones having problems. My verson licensed production work very well.

  The error I get on free machines is as follows:

  Failed to get vim_service - the session object is not initialized or not connected to the line /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/VMware/VICommon.pm 1654
  Perl came out with active threads:
  1 running and spare
  0 finished and spare
  0 running and detached

  I find autour and trying different solutions to simular errors (for example, by adding the debugging of CARP), but nothing works.

  None of the 1 post update fixes fixed either.

  ghettoVCB works very well on the free servers however.

  So, I'm curious if anyone has seen this problem?

  I guess that the reason is that ghettoVCB2 was built for the paid editions that allow write API access.

  There was some editions which do not restrict this access, as you can see in "Support of ESX/ESXi Version table" at http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9843. The initial version of ESXi 5.0 is / was one of them, considering that the update 1 is even more restrictive.

  André

• Can't connect after upgrade to ESXi 5

  After upgrading ESX 4.0.0. for ESXI 5, we are not able to connect console to esx server, there are two choices F2 or F12. I have already set up all the parameters F2, as Ip address, host name...

  Could you please tell how to get or connect to the console command root? even I can't use mastic to apply commands.

  Kind regards

  Ahmed

  Hello.  Even if SSH has been activated before the upgrade then reactivated later.

  Select F2 and log in as root.

  In the menu, select Troubleshooting Options

  Select enable the ESXi environment and press ENTER - this allows the shell local ESXi (use Alt - F1 to access)

  Select enable SSH and press ENTER - this allows SSH

  SSH can also be activated from vSphere Client host-> Configuration-> Security Profile

  This KB should help http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1017910

  I hope this helps.

  Hersey
  

• Use virtual of ESX 3.5 machines in ESXi 5.0

  Hello

  I have a question. I need to spend our virtual ESX 3.5 machines a ESXi 5.0. So, I need to update the virtual hardware and the right vmTools?

  And to do this, I need to install the VMware Update Manager. But how to install this program? Do I need to configure a new server vCenter Server?

  Or is there another way?

  Thank you for your help.

  Best regards

  Dominik

  You upgrade to ESXi 5.0 on the same hardware or new?

  You have vCenter already in place or running a stand-alone host?

  For the upgrade of VMware Tools and hardware Virtua VUM is not required. Once the virtual machine is running on the host ESXi 5.0, it can be done on VM separately

  Refer to KB for the upgrade virtual hardware and Vmware tools

• Query - moving from ESX 4.0 (cluster) to ESXi 4.1 (cluster) license

  Hi all

  Am very new to VMware, please bear with me.

  We have in our existing Production cluster, consisting of three (3) 4.0 ESX servers and the intention is to replace them with ESXi 4.1 (U1) (under license).

  The plan should gradually slide each ESX 4.0 Server and install ESXi 4.1 (U1) of an image from HP directly on top.

  No drama it (?), but what about the licenses...

  I have a few questions I have to date not been able to acqurie myself.

  1. With each of the VH in the Production cluster, are we able to move a server in the cluster, upgrade to ESXi 4.1 and go back to the same cluster?
     
     
  2. If NO to question 1, which would be the recommended upgrade path where there is one (1) cluster, three VH (currently ESX 4.0) and we replace with ESXi 4.1 (U1).
     
     We have x 1 vCenter Server Foundation 4 license and three(x3) vShpere4 licenses advanced.
     
     Must these licenses be updated too?

  Am deparate to find answers to these questions.

  Kind regards

  Cameron

  HI - welcome to the community.

  The answer to your question is YES - you can re - allocate your ESX 4.0 license to your hosts updated. the license is generic and can be removed from a host and added to the other using the License Manager.

• ESXi 4.0 command line upgrade to ESXi 4.0 U1

  I know there is a method in ESX using "esxupdate", but is there a simple process similar to ESXi commandline? Can someone post a step by step method and let me know which download install? I downloaded this...

  Upgrade the ESXi Server 4.0 package to ESXi Server 4.0 Update 1

  This package provides experienced users with the possibility to upgrade remotely, without head of ESXi Server 4.0 to ESXi Server 4.0 Update 1. Use this package with the Remote Command Line Interface 'vihostupdate '.

  Or is it not available for ESXi?

  Probably because you do not pass in the right syntax params and by default, it will use localhost. All orders of vCLI has always the default value - server, username - and - password (or you can let the password off and you will be asked)

  Try this:

  vihostupdate.pl --server 10.4.75.230 -user user -i -b C:\ESXi-4.0.0-update01.zip
  

  and assuming that the IP is your ESXi host, you will be asked your password

  Note: Also, if you use the vCLI to automate all the tasks, to ensure that you are on an eval edition or duly authorized of ESXi, as you can't use the vCLI with the free version of ESXi else, you will get an error.

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• Dell M620 (VRTX) blade - ESXi 5.1.0 Update 1 installation upgrade to ESXi 5.1.0 Update 3 (latest)

  This morning I did an installation of upgrade to ESXi 5.1.0 Update 1 to ESXi 5.1.0 Update 3 (latest Version) on one of the blades of my VRTX M620 three 3.  I have the same problem that I met about a year, when I tried to update 1-2 update.  I had to go down to 1 update to see the data store.

  With update 3, the data store does not appear on this blade.  I did a scan to see if the data store is present, but he did not.  Also, I restarted the blade which did not help.

  I have to keep upgrading to 3 update due to the necessary correction of problem CBT.

  How to troubleshoot and resolve this problem of my data store does not?

  Note: I have very little experience with virtualization.  I just found today on how to access the interface from the CLI of blades.

  Thanks in advance.

  SOLVED.

  The original sas megaraid drivers (even installed on the blades of M620 Dell) had to be installed.  It is my understanding that several versions of the megaraid sas driver provided on the Dell ESXi ISO are meant to satisfy the VMware HCL for this material.  However, the more recent does not show the data store.

• Upgrade to esxi 6 - running in parallel 5.5 versions Enterprise

  Hello together,

  We want to improve our Enterprise 5.5 to 6.0 Enterprise environment more.

  Can we run in parallel business with Enterprise 6.0 5.5 more ESXi hosts.

  or

  We can add the license keys for the company more than 5.5 to existing hosts without any configuration problem, then

  upgrade the esxi hosts to 6.0?

  Thank you

  There is no problem, but I recommend to keep this scenario only during migration.

• After Esxi 5.1 USB passthrough problem upgrade to Esxi 6. 0 b

  Hello

  Recently, I upgraded my ESXi host from version 5.1 to 6.0.0.2809209. Passthrough ESXi 5.1 USB worked without problem. I updated 5.1 to 6.0 when usb smart card readers is connected. Now USB smart card readers did not appear on ESXi 6. 0b.

  I couldn't find any usb tethering in settings of the virtual computer .

  

  output file /var/log/USB.log

  
  

  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: VTHREAD initialize the main thread 3 "usbArb" pid 33783
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DictionaryLoad: could not open the file "/ usr/lib/vmware/config ': no such file or directory.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: preferences PREF file optional not found in/usr/lib/vmware/config. Using the default values.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DictionaryLoad: cannot open the file '//.vmware/config': no such file or directory.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: found option preferences of PREF file in / / .vmware/config. Using the default values.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: deactivation of the preferences of the user PREF because disableUserPreferences is set.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: PREF cannot load the user's preferences.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DICT - PARAMETERS GLOBAL/usr/lib/vmware/settings
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DICT - NOT PERSISTENT
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DICT - USER PREFERENCES
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DICT - default USER IS //.vmware/config
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DICT - HOST by default IS/etc/vmware/config
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DICT libdir = ' / usr/lib/vmware. "
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: authd.proxy.nfc = DICT ' vmware - pass: ha - nfc ".
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: authd.proxy.nfcssl = DICT ' vmware - pass: ha-nfcssl. "
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: authd.proxy.vpxa - nfcssl = DICT ' vmware - vpxa:vpxa - nfcssl.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DICT authd.proxy.vpxa - nfc = "vmware - vpxa:vpxa - nfc.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DICT authd.fullpath = "/ sbin/authd '.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: DICT - SITE by default IS/usr/lib/vmware/config
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: USBArb: error in ' / etc/vmware/usbarb.rules' at line 1:0, ' [' or ' {' expected near end of file.}]
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: VMware USB Arbitration Service Version 13.1.14
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: USBArb: trying to connect to an arbitrator on/var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: SOCKET create new socket, connect to/var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: SOCKET connection failed, error 2: no such file or directory
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:10Z usbarb [33783]: USBArb: unable to connect to the existing arbitrator.
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:17Z usbarb [33783]: USBArb: UsbArbPipeConnected: connected to the client socket: 12
  2015 10-12 T 19: 30:17Z usbarb [33783]: USBArb: 34213 Client connected (version: 6)
  2015 10-12 T 19: 54:37Z usbarb [33783]: USBArb: customer closing, error: 2
  2015 10-12 T 19: 54:37Z usbarb [33783]: USBArb: 34213 Client disconnected

  lsusb and tail f /var/log/vmkernel.log | grep-i USB

  output of commands is empty.

  
  

  usbarbitrator chkconfig - list

  usbarbitrator on

  How can I solve this problem?

  Thank you

  OK I solved my problem.

  (1) I remove material passthrough.

  (2) I have been fallow in Re: error Usb referee 6. and 7. advice.

  And I am able to reach USB CCID of Esxi 6.0 virtual machine host.

  Thank you