Update 4.0 or start from scratch with 4.1?

Here's my current context:

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 VM

OK, I start over from scratch with the vCenter 4.1 instead of upgrade.  A few reasons for this is that these latest changes to my vCenter caused problems that more in VMware communities say a uninstall/reinstall their problems solved.

These changes are the following:

1. I installed the Client on an existing vCenter Server 4.0 4.1 vSphere.  I had some minor issues and found this shift of the versions is not good, so I uninstalled 4.1 and kept 4.0 client.  It was not great thing and resolved as far as I'm concerned.

2. I changed my existing VUM by a local account SQL & SQL authentication to a domain account using Windows authentication.  As I made this change I get errors at the launch of the customer following plugin VUM.  I watched many messages on this problem and again the end result is a reinstall or replace as it was that I don't want to because I have the most secure option of Windows authentication.  It has become a pain in the neck and I tried to make sure that everything worked as it was before I have to start the reconstruction of vCenter for 64 - bit and take the existing databases, etc., but now it seems as if it would be better to start from scratch.

Now, the things I did when I first installed VMware I would change are:

1. instead of using 2 databases separate for vCenter and VUM, I would use rather than a database because my environment is very low and this option is recommended for large scale environments.  Initially, I would have not took care to keep the two, but the previous problems described above with my Crossover makes me want of it clear and start over again because I just used it in the past, it's a very small database.  I intend to use it more once I come to vCenter 4.1.

2. I rebuild my server vCenter existing that is running Windows Server 2003 32-bit to a Windows Server 2008 64-bit, so if I start from scratch that do exactly I lose my existing vcenter database?  Just the configurations that I have with my cluster and individual ESX hosts?  I thought I can just add them in vCenter as before and just make sure it is everything what it was before... again... not a big problem since I was a very small environment.

Thoughts?

I would like to start with a new configuration of vCenter server, unless you use vCenter features such as vDS. The only things you lose are cluster settings (HA, DRS, resource pools,...) as well as historical data and Crossover settings.

However, I keep the vCenter (with vCenter services disabled) and let the 3.5 on this virtual machine license server until you have upgraded 3.5 hosts. This way you can avoid the installation of the old license on the new vCenter Server Server server.

Also, I'd install the vCenter DB and the DB VUM as separate databases!

André

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