ESX 3.5 to 4.0 upgrade

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• Host ESX 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade

  Hi all

  In my organization I have assigned to a task of the Host ESX 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade.  I came through the VM KB documents.  Y at - it videos available that shows the upgradation via the Service Console.

  Thanks for all the entries...

  Thank you.

  Hello

  You don't need a video, its very simple.

  1. simply download: upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip

  2 use VUM guests 4.0 to 4.1.

  In addition, you can do command line...

  1. download: pre-upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip

  2. download: upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip

  3 using esxupdate

  Thank you

• 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

• ESX 3.5 to 4.1 upgrade - advise

  Need help on how to upgrade ESX 3.5 to 4.1

  Here's the scenario:

  • We have 4 ESX 3.5 standalone host running free version of esx - "VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 build-153875.
  • All 4 hosts connected to shared storage (NFS) NETAPP
  • We have a separate environment where we have bunch of esxi 4.1 servers and Virtual Center server 4.1
  • I can't add 3.5 servers to existing VC because they are free and there is no license server in new infrastructure.
  • These two environments have their separate shared storage (nfs)
  • I want to upgrade from 3.5 to 4.1 servers (we lic esxi 4.1) and add them as a cluster of 4 servers to article 4.1 of the existing VC
  • Please tell us how a. would improve 3.5 to 4.1 and b.      Add them to existing VC.

  Thank you.

  You can add NFS to share this ESX 3.5 Server ESXi 4.1 servers? If you can - then for each ESX 3.5 server power down the virtual machines and remove them from the inventory - on one of the ESXi 4.1 Add the itsinventory of VMto - once the host ESX 3.5 is empty rebuld with 4.1 and add to the vCenter environment and backward the VMs - repeat until all hosts are upgraded

• ESX 3.5 to 4.0 upgrade: No. unzip ESX 3.5.0 #1 SMP Release build-158874

  I downloaded 4.0.0 - esxupgrade - 208167.zip and esx - DVD - 4.0.0 - 208167.iso

  The attempt failed to decompress 4.0.0 - esxupgrade - 208167.zip! Not unzip the executable file.

  I unzipped the file on my desktop and got esxupgrade.sh.

  Unfortunately there is no ZIP code in script shell to be decompressed.

  BusyBox v1.2.1 has gunzip is not working.

  Is there a solution? This is not the first time that I had problems with the

  free version, that I use for test purposes

  VMware has changed the way updates are performed in vSphere versus how you used to be able to make upgrades in VI3.  You can use the vSphere Host Update utility you vSphere client on your Windows desktop to upgrade a stand-alone ESXi 3.5 crowd to vSphere (aka ESX 4).

  On Page 71, start here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_upgrade_guide.pdf

  There is much more on the updates on the center of upgrade to vmware.com and I recommend to read the release notes for known issues and to check what to download also:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/vSphere4/doc/vsp_esxi40_u1_rel_notes.html

  As always check requirements and the HCL for you hardware.

  Hope that helps

  Hanna

• ESX 4.1 to 5.5 upgrade process & path

  Can someone point me in the right direction regarding the upgrade from 4.1 to 5.5.  Is there a direct upgrade path?  Or should I first put to 5.0?

  Also, what are some of the common questions admins have met?  Bugs and workarounds?

  Any comments would be much appreciated.

  Artemis

  You can go directly to the version of vSphere, ESXi 5.5, this is a path entirely supported, see: VMware product interoperability Matrices

  Here is an article with the methods that you can use to do this update: VMware KB: methods of upgrade to ESXi 5.5

  Note that if your ESXi hosts vSphere are managed by vCenter Server, you must upgrade your vCenter Server server to version 5.5 before upgrading your hosts.

• An ESX 5.1 to 5.5 upgrade, now I can't connect to it.

  Hello.

  I just upgraded my 5.1 standalone ESXi to ESXi 5.5 with the help of this link:

  http://www.v-front.de/2013/09/how-to-update-your-standalone-host-to.html

  Now, I can not access the HTTPS site ESXi and if the VSphere Client.

  I can still connect to SSH and see data warehouses.

  What should I do?

  Thank you.

  
  Cordially Nicolai Pedersen

  Fixed, installed a new driver for my 6803E Adaptec raid controller.

• host esx 3.5 to 4.1 upgrade

  Dear team,

  I want to upgarde an esx 3.5 to 4.1, need your help please help me with a few simple steps instead of reading pdf 100page what precuation I do take and run successful upgarde.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  See, http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1019239

• ESX 3.5 licenses during the upgrade to vSphere

  Hello all I hope someone can help me with a question of license.

  Is there a way I can tell when my host ESX 3.5 license expires without a license server?

  Can I take one of my vCenter 4.0 licenses and create the ESX 3.5 license file?

  Or do I have to rebuild a license server to connect my ESX 3.5 hosts to? Is this really a machine virtual?

  If it's important, I hope that all of my hosts built on ESXi 4.0 before the end of July.

  Thanks for the help,

  You have a period of 14 days in which to run without a license server.  After 14 days (power on VMs) features become unavailable.  My recommendations:

  1. determine what day the license server was decommissioned.

  2 see/var/log/vmkernel, logs files on the ESX servers to identify the first message about available license server.

  3 project 14 days from the date of license server is deleted.

  If you decide to try to beat the clock, doing nothing.  If you decide to license flex server backup steps below:

  4 Alter the DNS name of the license server (ESX 3.5 servers point to licenses) to your new Server 4.0 vCenter.

  5. install the flex on your server vCenter 4.0 License Manager.

  6. make sure that ESX 3.5 servers are now allowed.

  7. remove the flex License Manager when the ESX 3.5 servers have disappeared.

• Get "unable to install the VirtualCenter Agent service" on ESX 2.5.4 after the upgrade of the VC to 2.5 update3

  I have improved my Virtual Center 2.5 to 2.5 update 3. After doing this, I have 2 of my ESX v2.5.4 servers which will not reconnect.

  I get the error message "Unable to install the VirtualCenter Agent service". I also see "the connection failed due to a bad user name or password" showing upwards in the list of tasks of VC. I don't know that I type in the good user/pass as I turn around tight and SSH on the server using the same user/pass.

  I tried to do "service vmware-vpxa restart" on the hosts. What log file I look in upon the host server to find the real problem, and is there any other suggestions on a quick fix to try before the word is supported?

  Thank you.

  Here is a good link that will help you in the installation of officers

  http://VMware-land.com/Vmware_Tips.html#ESX6

• Adding more than one host ESX and the upgrade at the same time.  What is the order of preference of the operations here?

  We are budgeting for more licenses and hardware for 2014 and want to do immediately in January.  I am trying to decide what is the best order of operations for adding two vmware hosts additional to our current installation of vsphere and also upgrade our vsphere / esx 4.1 u3 for the latest and best.

  We have 3 Dell PowerEdge R710 running ESX 4.1 U3.  In this vmware cluster, there is a vcenter server 4.1 U3 virtual machine handle this.  The three servers are about 90% memory used so we add 2 additional servers.  Probably the Dell PowerEdge r.620 since we get up 2 in the space of a 710.  Storage is on a san EMC NX4 NFS which will become too but not yet, let's just deal with the vmware part.

  When adding additional r.620 2, should I install ESX 4.1 on them and join them to the existing cluster and THEN pass vcenter and each one esx?  I ask precisely because 90% of use on 3 current servers, I need 2 other servers to support the update operations take place.  They would be able to repel vmotioned vm while each host receives an upgrade at the same time.

  So which is the best way to go about adding of the hosts and the upgrade?  Would I add as 4.1, then they would be available as targets vmotion and so I have room to start the hosts one upgrade at a time?

  If I update vcenter to the latest version, it is comparable backwards and can manage the 4.1 hosts, but also hosts 5.x?  I guess version 5.5 is the last one I would get from VMWare?  It is right of ESXi, then, how is this ESX ESXi 5.5 4.1 upgrade?  How much storage space do I need for ESXi 5.5, as I'm dechatoiement out of these r.620 Dell and need to know what hard drive to put in.

  The steps that you must follow

  -Updated vCenter Server

  -Upgrade of the ESX hosts (because we do a updating of the material we will install 5.5 on our new guests and add them to the cluster and then dismantle our existing)

  -Upgrade VMWare tools

  -Update data warehouses

  ESXi 5.5 has these storage requirements:

  • Installing ESXi 5.5 requires a boot device is at least 1 GB in size. When booting from a local disk or SAN/LUN iSCSI, a 5.2 GB drive is necessary to allow for the creation of the VMFS volume and a scratch 4 GB partition on the boot device. If a smaller drive or logical unit number is used, the installation program attempts to allocate a region scratching on a separate local disk. If a local drive is not found, the scratch partition (/ scratch) is located on the disk virtual ESXi host, linked to the/tmp/scratch. You can reconfigure /scratch to use another drive or logical unit number. For best performance and memory optimization, VMware recommends that you leave no /scratch on the ESXi host ramdisk.
  • To reconfigure / scratch, see Configure the Scratch Partition of vSphere Client vSphere Installation and Installation Guide.
  • Because of the sensitivity of the I/O devices, USB and SD, the installation program does not create a partition scratch on these devices. Therefore, there is no tangible benefits to the use of the great features of USB/SD that ESXi uses only the first 1 GB. When installing on USB or SD, tent Setup devices to allocate a region scratching on a local disk or the data store. If no disk is local or data store, /scratch is placed on the virtual disk. You must reconfigure /scratch to use a persistent data store after the installation.
  • In Auto deploy facilities, Setup attempts to allocate a region scratching on a local disk or the data store. If no local disk or data store is found /scratch is placed on the virtual disk. You must reconfigure /scratch to use a persistent data store after the installation.
  • For environments that start from a San or use Auto Deploy, it is not necessary to assign a separate logical unit number for each ESXi host. You can co-locate areas scrape for several hosts ESXi on a single LUN. The number of hosts assigned to a single LUN must balance the size of the LUN and behavior I/O virtual machines.

• ESX or ESXi host upgrade procedure...

  Respected VMware Experts,

  I'm three differrent customer support and upgrading ESX3.5 host ESX 4 Update 2 following is the scenario of the same thing.

  1) I have a Standalone ESX host 3.5, need to upgrade to ESX 4. Update 2.

  Local storage = 2 to (entirely used by 3 VMs)

  3 VMs

  What precautions should I take before upgrading ESX 3.5 to ESX 4 Update 2. What are the steps and details for upgrade ESX3.5 to ESX 4 Update 2, without losing any data (VMs). I do not have hard drives to back up virtual machines 3

  2) on the second site, I have a Standalone ESX host 3.5 requires upgrading to ESX 4 Update 2.

  SAN = 3 TB storage

  5 virtual machines

  What precautions should I take before upgrading ESX 3.5 to ESX 4 Update 2. What will be the prerequisite steps and details for upgrade ESX3.5 to ESX 4 Update 2, without losing the VMs data.

  3) third host ESX from Site 2 setting set in a cluster environment VMware 3.5 to ESX ESX 4 Update 2.

  SAN shared storage = 2 to

  7 VM

  What precautions should I take before upgrading ESX 3.5 to ESX 4 Update 2. What will be the prerequisite steps and details for upgrade ESX3.5 to ESX 4 Update 2, without losing the VMs data.

  Those who have done this several times and created a POS, will be very useful to read 100 pages PDF to do the same.

  Concerning

  MrVMware9423

  (1) check if your hardware supported vSphere 4.1

  (2) suggest upgrade to ESXi instead of ESX

  (3) make sure that you update your vCenter server first and vCetner 4.1 will run only x 64-bit Windows systems

  (4) for the stand-alone version you have separated RAID for ESX and store data if so you can just format the drive on which ESX is installed

  (5) for the site with SAN storage disconnect from host to storage and re - join

  Make sure that the upgrade guide is reviewed

• Direct upgrade from esx 3.5 to esx 4.1

  Hello

  I've already upgraded to vCenter 2.5 to 4.1, now I'm upgraded by train from esx 3.5 to esx 4.1 and all of the articles and videos that I have read say that I need to download the upgrade zip file and do the upgrade through VMware host update utility (as I am only upgrade 2 hosts).

  However, when I try to download the zip file, the only option I get is

  ESX 4.1 Update 1 (updated the ZIP of ESX 4.0)
  Use this package with vCenter Update Manager 4.1 U1 or vihostupdate vCLI or esxupdate command line to upgrade ESX ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 update 1.

  Which allows an upgrade to version 4.0 (or if she says).  Can I use this zip file?

  I even went back through all the versions 4.0, and there is no upgrade for 3.5 anywhere zip file?

  How can I make this update of the utility of the upgrade using the host?

  Concerning

  Steven

  In my view, an error in the above steps.

  Are you using ESX and ESXi, you will need to download ESX 4.1 install ISO for upgrade from ESX3.5 to ESX4.1 driver

  You must use vCenter Update manage or esxupgrade.sh for upgrade. No other tool as vihostupdate, host update utility etc. are not supported.

  For more details from vCenter update manager, refer to the admin guide and for esxupgrade.sh, see http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1009440&sliceId=2&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=170100028&stateId=1%200%20170096294

  Thank you

  Nithin

• Upgrading ESX to ESXi 4.1 3.5?

  I searched through the release notes, and it seems clear to me that I can go from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1.

  It is specified that you can go to the ESXI have 3.5 to ESXi 4.1, but only as of ESX 3.5?  Can I upgrade level, or what I have to do a fresh install?

  ESX 3.5? Can I upgrade level, or what I have to do a fresh install?

  Cannot mix types i to i or ESX to ESX, you cannot 'upgrade' (i) ESX to ESX or vice versa.  So a new installation is necessary.

• CPU is not allow to the machine after upgrading ESX 3.5 vSphere4

  I upgrade the host ESX 3.5 to the vSphere4.Upgrade process has been completed successfully, but an error message shows on the screen of welcome to vSphere 4.

  "TSC: 1256115 CPU init:461: The Execute Disable / feature no. Execute CPU is not allow the machine."

  The host machine hardware specification is blew

  Model: IBM eServer BladeCenter H...

  CPU cores: 4CPus x2.333GHz

  Process type: Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU

  5140 @ 2.33 GHz

  Please help...

  Depending on your server, in select BIOS of the server "Advanced Setup"-> 'CPU Options', you should see 'CPU Execute Disable Bit' and 'Intel Virtualization Technology. Make sure that both are set to "Enabled".

  After you save the BIOS settings, make sure you can completely cycle the server (cold boot).

  André