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• 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 3.01 upgrade to ESXi 5.1

  Hello all-

  I just wanted to throw it out there to get an idea on how to accomplish what we are trying to do.  We are running ESX 3.01 in our environment.  We currently anticipate on the upgrade to ESXi 5.1 and as part of this upgrade, we will be the purchase of new equipment.

  
  My question is – once I get the new hardware in place and installed, when I turned off my existing ESX 3.x vm and copy them into my new hardware - what will take to make this work?  I know that virtual hardware version should be upgraded (somehow?) and also the vmware tools must be upgraded - for each of the machines.  Other than that, tips, pointers or info you can share would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  SB

  If your existing virtual machines are hardware version 4 virtual machine, you can just their copy/import/restore/etc in the new vSphere environment 5. You are not required to do anything else to these virtual machines with virtual machine hardware version or the version of VMware Tools. From there, you may test to make sure that everything works as expected with these virtual machines.

  When you are ready to update the VMware Tools and hardware of the virtual machine, and then turn off the virtual machine snapshot of the virtual machine, update of the VMware Tools and reboot, stop the virtual machine, update the virtual hardware, test and then delete the snapshots - or you can use Manager Update to greatly simplify this manual process.

  There is not a lot of traps with the refurbishment that you speak, because the old environment will continue to be available and virtual machines can be powered on there if necessary.

• question re esx 4.1 upgrade 2

  Sorry if this has already been discussed.  If Yes please send me the link.

  I use update Manager to update my ESX hosts.  Currently the version shows ESX 4.1.0 502767 - does that mean it is updated to 2 upgrade? -A colleague gave me the following ISO - VMware-VIMSetup-all - 4.1.0 - 493063 and told me that I had to use to upgrade to 4.1 upgrade 2.  I looked through these discussions, but it is difficult to know exactly how updates work in the Update Manager.

  TIA

  ESXi 4.1 Build 502767 corresponds to ESXi 4.1 Update 2, you are up to date with the hosts. (see http://vsphere-land.com/vinfo/release-build-info)

  ISO "VMware-VIMSetup-all - 4.1.0 - 493063" is the vCenter Server installation ISO. It's yours if you update Server/Update Manager vCenter to the latest version too. Please find the compatibility matrix for http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php

  André

• ESX 3.5 upgrade to vSphere 4.1

  What is the best way to migrate from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.1, also VC 2.5 to 4.1 VC?

  Welcome to the community - follow the VMware Upgrade Guide - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_upgrade_guide.pdf

  Curious to know why you aren't moving to vSphere 5?

• The ESX 3.5 upgrade

  I just upgraded one of my host ESX 3.5 update 4 for the update of the deployment of June 2011 5. Everything seemed to have worked very well, but I just read that the 4 June 2011 update deployment 5 update upgrade is not recommended. They want to first update 5 and then update for deployment from June 2011. Is this true? Should I update my host remaining this way?

  Thank you

  Thanks for these orders. For the host, I've updated, it is said the build is 391406 and that is what is there on the VMware download site. Not sure why it says I have the build 317866 VIC.

  There is a known issue, can't seem to find this time however, where the customer is not the correct version, but the ESX host only.  I would take what the host ESX said that where you build is level.  As to do something more... When you ran the-l esxupdate query command, you saw U5?  That said the command - v to vmware.  For me, I would probably just leave this alone host.  Another with U5 patch first and then nothing after him.  From there on, compare the two hosts for patch levels.

  If you need to restore, the only way to do it would be a new generation.

• The VMFS partitions and ESX in MUV upgrades

  Back in the day when you installed ESX it deems any VMFS partition is priese formatting for you even if you had all your machines on them

  I intend to upgrade ESX 4.0 to 4.1 using AUVS that resembles a simple process.  Anyone know if:

  1. it clears the local VMFS partition?

  2. He wipes SAN VMFS partitions that it finds?

  Thank you

  Stu

  N ° you don t be vmfs http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022140 loss

• ESX to ESXi upgrade

  Hi all!

  So my question is:

  Is there a way to easy upgrade from esx to esxi? or it will reinstall anyway?

  No way to upgrade. You must reinstall the host. The host document, reinstall it and configure it again :-)

• ESX 3.5 upgrade to vSphere using Activation of Windows

  I'm trying to upgrade ESX 3.5 a customer to vSphere.   I have a single license of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and spin 4 VMS (clones) on a single ESX host.   (a real activation and 3 clones of the Windows VM already active)

  After that I've upgraded to vSphere each Windows VM will require reactivation of Windows.

  Can someone tell me what to expect regarding regarding the reactivation work or I will have to call Microsoft.  Microsoft will allow me to reactivate all 4 VM?  Is it the fact that the VM is clones impact of the process of reactivation with Microsoft?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  If Windows in the VM is already activated, it should not be necessary to "reactivate" once you upgrade to vSphere. I do updates all the time and have never had to reactivate windows.

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• ESX 3.0 upgrade to Vsphere

  Hi friends,

  Can upgrade us ESX 3.0 to Vsphere immediately or to go for a clean install.

  Thank you

  Jean Yves

  The 3.0 is quite old.

  I also suggest a clean reinstall.

  If you've enabled for vMotion, you can perform the following operations:

  • Install a new server vCenter Server

  • Disable HA and DRS on the old cluster (if you use them)

  • Add all hosts to vCenter Server, but keep the existing license server

  • One by one, put each host in maintenance mode, to do a clean reinstall (remove the SAN connection during the re-Setup), then reconnect the median guest

  • Then upgrade the VMware Tools

  • Then upgrade the virtual hardware VM

  Note that vMotion work also between old and new guests.

  André

• ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.1 upgrade zip

  Y at - it upgrade zip to go from esx 3.5 to esx 4.1? I find one for ESXi, but none for ESX.

  I want to improve my 3.5 servers to 4.1 without going first to 4.0.

  Use Manager Update and Installer ISO.

  If you do not update manager, you must go to ESX 4.0 using Host Update Utility, then to ESX 4.1 using esxupdate or vihostupdate.

  Thank you

  Sukumar.

• Updated vCenter for 4.0u2 - now ESX in place upgrade?

  So we went from vCenter 2.5 to vCenter 4.0u2 last night without a hitch.   We have 8 ESX host to update 5 3.5 production that we want to upgrade inplace to 4.0u2.  I tried to created a basic upgrade in the update management, but even though I have the "upload" upgrade .zip file, repeat me just "failed download" - any ideas on the best way to do it place upgrade?

  Hi all

  COS vmdk size is 8 GB. You can choose any data store that has 8 GB of free space. If you do not have one you can do the following actions.

  (1) add a new store of data for more than than8GB of size and keep your vmdk cos in this data store.

  (2) to add a new host LUN and extend your data store so that you will get a free space to the existing data store and then continue your vmdk cos in the data store.

  Thank you

  Sukumar.

• The trial of ESXi 3.5 to vsphere ESX 4.0 upgrade problem.

  Configure a test host ESXi 3.5 with 2 virtual machines running on it and I now want to upgrade to vsphere ESX 4.0, but where in the heck do I get the zip file needed to use Update Manager?

  I'll buy the Essentials bundle, but I want to test the upgrade before doing the actual upgrade, and I can't understand what I'm doing wrong.

  Help!

  It is for ESXi, and matter.

  This is the main directory of patches

  https://www.VMware.com/mySupport/download/

  .. But if you try to go to ESXi ESX, you can not upgrade, this is a regeneration.

• 3.02 ESX 3.5 upgrade question

  I'll spend 3.02 ESX ESX 3.5, stop all VMs, but my question is if I will put the host in "maintenance" mode before you stop an upgrade?

  whenever you do any type of work on an ESX host, I would say maintenance mode.

• ESX 3.5 upgrade to VSphere 4, question of SAN.

  First time poster long time reader and disgester of all.  Thanks for all the info everyone.

  We manage all the IBM HS21XM blades.  We have all our warehouses of VM data on a San and the guests all have the ESX OS on the local blade HARD drive.  On the KB update: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1009039 it says on the step 5 Note ESX Server to physically disconnect the fiber during the upgrade.

  Since we are in a blade chassis that will cut all of our ESX host.  So it's kind of bad for us during the opening hours.

  My question is is in the chassis and by disabling the good enough to meet this stage port of host level or the fiber must be disconnected from the chassis?

  Thank you. Mike

  step 5 is just a security measure to ensure that warehouses data on SAN used be disturbed during the upgrade. It is not required of disconnect\disable SAN LUNS before starting the upgrade.

  Compared with 3.5, 4.0 upgrade mechanism is different, SAN data warehouses will not be disturbed in the current method of upgrade.  So far I have strength hear any question saying upgrade disturbed warehouses of data on SAN 4.0 updated.

  Kind regards

  Oumou khairy