Upgrade process

Hey guys,.

I have currently a cluster of ESXi hosts 3.5U3 I'm looking to upgrade to 4.0U1.

KB1016262 of reading, it seems that my approach will have to apply a patch. Since this seems to be a patch for ESX4.0 and best practice is to upgrade vCenter before upgrading ESX, the recommendation seems to be a long process:

  • Go vCenter to 4.0

  • ESXi 4.0 upgrade

  • Apply the specific fix to ESXi

  • Last upgrade vCenter for 4.0U1

  • Patch ESXi

I've experienced the bug in our test environment, and what I understand, that it will not affect, for example, the host update service to connect to a server and upgrade. Is there a reason I can't do just this:

  • Put the hosts in maintenance mode

  • Last upgrade vCenter for 4.0U1

  • Upgrade to ESXi ESXi - 4.0.0 - 1.9.208167 - upgrade - release.zip to ESXi4.0U1 with

It is much less updates and reboots, and experience in our laboratory has been that each update/patch took some time, and I really want to minimize downtime.

PS, final step that I use VMCLI to apply the hp - esxi4.0uX - bundle - 1.2.zip.

1. you don't have to put hosts in maintenance mode during upgrade to vCenter.

2. you can go directly to vCenter 4u1 without 4.0.

3. use of the update to upgrade Manager ESXi is 4u1.

4. apply all patches released after 4u1.

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