Thinking on upgrading ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 in a cluster host

Hi all

I have the cluster:

vCenter 5.0 and many hosts running ESXi 4.1

I want to improve the hosts to 5.0.

My question:

There's a question if I do an upgrade offline (using the ESXi installation CD).

-How about if I want to do a new install of the host? Should I remove the host first of the bunch?

-Can I migrate the virtual computer first off the coast of the host for both methods?

Thanks in advance.

Fajar.

If you have multiple hosts in the cluster, you can pass the host one

-Put a host into maintenance mode, that you plan to upgrade, then all the other virtual machines will have to migrate to another host (without interruption)

-If you are installing freshly host, always the data store you won't get in shape, therefore inherited vmfs3 features will be there, even without the existing data store.

-No need to turn off the vm or host for migration, go with vmotion functionality.

-A

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