Questions about upgrading vSphere 4.0 to 4.1

OK, here's my environment:

vCenter 4.0 & customer 162856 to build running on a physical server with Windows Server 2003 32-bit.

vCenter Update Manager DB and (everyone) are on separate physical server to SQL 2005 64-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit

-Production Cluster running 3 ESX 4.0 Build 164009, 8 virtual machines running all the updates with the v7 hardware VM and VM Tools

-1 ESX 4.0 Build 164009 (without clusters), run 1 machine virtual update with material v7 VM and VM Tools

-1 ESX 3.5 Build 110268 (without clusters), current enforcement 6 VM with a hardware VM and VM Tools v4

-1 ESX 3.5 Build 110268 (without clusters), current enforcement with a hardware VM and VM Tools 7 VM v4

* After upgrade, I add a host ESX 4.1 extra (new installation) to create a 2nd group for DMZ using one of the above mentioned existing nonclustered hosts.  My total environment after upgrade will be is a small with only 7 guests and a total of 24 virtual machines.

Here are my questions after reading all the documentation of VMware:

1. Although vCenter 4.1 can use SQL Express 2005 built on the same server for small environments, he says that it is only for 5 guests and 50 VM. Is my small enough to continue to use this DB option, or should I stick with the performance of my vCenter & the DB Manager Update on separate SQL Server? I guess if I want to use SQL 2008 now or in the near future I should keep them turned off the local vcenter... thoughts?

2. it is said that for small environments, we can have vCenter and Update Manager DB as one. I wouldn't mind this because I've never really used the Update Manager and I don't lose a lot, but after upgrade, I plan to use it frequently

3. I want to move my existing vCenter off SQL 2005 DB and put on a SQL 2008 64 bit server.  If I remove and re - join on SQL 2008 64-bit, which would automatically upgrade my DB to the features of 2008?  Also, if I do that I would be able to add vCenter Update Manager 4.1 existing DB or can I just start over with a new DB vCenter to use Update Manager vCenter as a DB?  If I start with a fresh DB on SQL 2008 64-bit vCenter I lose all of my Cluster, etc correct configuration? or will the cluster and it's stay in tact VM after I added all hosts in vCenter with VM?

4. I want to take the existing vCenter server and rebuild it as Windows Server 2008 64-bit, then install vCenter 4.1, so should I upgrade current ESX 3.5 to 4.1 via Manager Update before you rebuild or after?

5. when I started using VMware's vCenter 2.5 and I noticed that I have 2 DB that I'm not grateful.  I want to confirm that it was created automatically by vCenter and if it's necessary as I move forward with the new vCenter 4.1 upgrade.  These 2 DB I noticed after my SQL for the VMware DB backups running.  The DB is 'vmm_db_v2_1' and 'Insight_v50_0_125721458 '?

This is for now... If I think of anything else, I'll add it.  Thanks in advance for any input... I appreciate it.

1. If your environment is small (max 5 guests and 50 VM) you can keep SQL Express and AUVS in the same machine.

Maybe you can consider increasing the 3 GB (minimum) to 4 GB vRAM.

2. for the small environment, you can use SQL Express for both

3 SQL 2008 is supported. You can DB (but in this case works as of 2005) of attachment/detachment or use the migration of the data inside the SQL tool.

Do not forget to manually change the ODBC connections in your vCenter

4. first of all you must upgrade vCenter, you can use new VUM upgrading of the hosts.

See the update guide 4.1.

5. the DB are not used by vCenter

André

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