Migrating to ESX 4.1 options and VC

I'm about to start our migration to ESX 4.1 and I was wondering what might be the best way to do it.  I was looking at the compatibility matrix and I see that vCenter 4.0 U2 can support ESX 4.1 boxes but vCetner 4.1 can only support ESX 4.1 boxes not 4.0.

Current config is a box of hardware running vCenter 4.0 U1, but the hardware does not support 64-bit OS, so I'll build a VM to run our new VC that can handle a 64 bit OS.  Can I put them side by side, obviously different name and pointing to a new database.

Its more a matter of opinion, should I do my vCenter 4.0 U2 and perform the migration and then once all my 4.0 hosts are converted to 4.1 and then move the VC up to 4.1 or should I get the new built VC and then simply move hosts I will?  In my mind, I'd rather have a VC manage all my hosts and not them distributed between two servers vCenter.

Thoughts?

-Kyle

«"RParker wrote: I guess I was mistaken, everything CAN be virtualized"»

khughes wrote:

WARNING - busy sorry on DayQuil sorry if my question was phrased wrong or things don't make sense.  --

Hey... summer he does that!

Sorry read the backwards compatibility matrix.  Makes it easy and not our material can not support 64-bit OS (running on 32-bit 4.0u1).  I don't really like about the history / performance data and I have heard of from 4.0 to 41 DB upgrade problems.  I'll just build on a virtual machine running 2003 x 64 and use it to run vCenter 4.1 and then migrate our 4.0 hosts on that.

If you must rebuild the host to vCenter operating system, and if you have the OS, a better host operating system might be 2008 R2?  Just my personal preference, the 2003, x 64 is supported.

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