Upgrade to ESXi (free) 3.5 to ESX 4.1 (with license)

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• Upgrade to ESXi free edition to the essential

  I bought VmWare Essentials.  I have 3 guests that I need to upgrade.  2 guests have ESXi 4.0 and 1 host ESXi 4.1.  I downloaded and installed the Vcenter server on a Windows 2003 64-bit, Server server and do not know what steps I have to take for my host machines.  I host machines begin from an internal USB drive and then all the VMS sit on a RAID5 with 2 data warehouses.  I want to assure you that I will not lose one of my virtual machines.  My question is just to install the new key license or do I have to download 4.1 and reinstall the USB?  Any help would be greatly appreciated so that I am using what I bought.

  The addition of the license key is all that is necessary. You will lose all data.

• Error after upgrade to ESXi 5 Update 1 on free version

  At all a ghettoVCBg2 got another run properly after the upgrade to ESXi 5u1 via vMA 5 when it's the free version?

  I have a couple of free machine and they are the only ones having problems. My verson licensed production work very well.

  The error I get on free machines is as follows:

  Failed to get vim_service - the session object is not initialized or not connected to the line /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/VMware/VICommon.pm 1654
  Perl came out with active threads:
  1 running and spare
  0 finished and spare
  0 running and detached

  I find autour and trying different solutions to simular errors (for example, by adding the debugging of CARP), but nothing works.

  None of the 1 post update fixes fixed either.

  ghettoVCB works very well on the free servers however.

  So, I'm curious if anyone has seen this problem?

  I guess that the reason is that ghettoVCB2 was built for the paid editions that allow write API access.

  There was some editions which do not restrict this access, as you can see in "Support of ESX/ESXi Version table" at http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9843. The initial version of ESXi 5.0 is / was one of them, considering that the update 1 is even more restrictive.

  André

• Embedded ESXi (free) upgrade to Vsphere

  Hello

  First time starting the vmware community. I ran esxi 3 (free) on two or three servers to get a feel for vmware. We love it and we decided to buy vsphere (ordered today ). I'm looking at all the documentation here and I hope that some of our permanent experts can help on the upgrade paths are available, upgrade inplace? start from scratch? I'm not sure. If there are kb articles or blogs out there, please let me know. I'm looking for from shipped (free) for vsphere, esxi/esx esxi (any). will be managed using vcenter.

  Take a look to this blog post by Charlotte that guides you through an upgrade to ESXi 3.5 to 4.0: http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2009/05/esx3i-to-esx4i-update.html

  Best approach will use the Host Update Utility

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• I upgraded to ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 ESxi now when I ping the esx host, it fails.

  I upgraded to ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 ESxi now when I ping the esx host, it fails.

  I was able to ping before the update. Test management system also fails to ping the default gateway.

  I sent a private message you, could answer you on this one here? Got iso's, he's now testing in my lab, but I don't have that kind of network cards, you will need to do the real test for me.

• ESX 3.01 upgrade to ESXi 5.1

  Hello all-

  I just wanted to throw it out there to get an idea on how to accomplish what we are trying to do.  We are running ESX 3.01 in our environment.  We currently anticipate on the upgrade to ESXi 5.1 and as part of this upgrade, we will be the purchase of new equipment.

  
  My question is – once I get the new hardware in place and installed, when I turned off my existing ESX 3.x vm and copy them into my new hardware - what will take to make this work?  I know that virtual hardware version should be upgraded (somehow?) and also the vmware tools must be upgraded - for each of the machines.  Other than that, tips, pointers or info you can share would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  SB

  If your existing virtual machines are hardware version 4 virtual machine, you can just their copy/import/restore/etc in the new vSphere environment 5. You are not required to do anything else to these virtual machines with virtual machine hardware version or the version of VMware Tools. From there, you may test to make sure that everything works as expected with these virtual machines.

  When you are ready to update the VMware Tools and hardware of the virtual machine, and then turn off the virtual machine snapshot of the virtual machine, update of the VMware Tools and reboot, stop the virtual machine, update the virtual hardware, test and then delete the snapshots - or you can use Manager Update to greatly simplify this manual process.

  There is not a lot of traps with the refurbishment that you speak, because the old environment will continue to be available and virtual machines can be powered on there if necessary.

• Moving from vm to ESXi (free version) to a new cluster of ESX 3.5

  Hi guys,.

  I just wanted to get some input on how I can possibly move a virtual machine on an ESXi server to a cluster of ESX servers.  Can I just copy the files of the full virtual machine since the ESXi data store in the ESX data store? Thank you.

  The easiest way is to use vmware converter: http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/

  Kind regards

  Gerrit Lehr

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• Upgrade to ESXi 4.1U1 to 5.0 - lots of questions

  Hello

  I have a standalone ESXi system 4.1U1 (Build 433742) (free license) which works really well.

  Material: DEL PE2900 server with RAID DELL PERC5i controller and two RAID 1 arrays defined.

  Discs: 4x256GB = > 2 x RAID1 with two drives = > 2 logical drives each 256 GB

  -Two tables contain an ESX/ESXi installation

  - First RAID arrray has an ESX 3.5 installation that is old and I no longer use it since ages (starting from the second matrix Raid in BIOS)

  - Second RAID array has an installation of ESX 4.1U1 (Build 433742) . The one I use.

  The two Raid arrays contain an about 250 GB VMFS datastore

  Now, I want to move my box to ESXi (free) 5.0 using the CD-ROM. According to several of the videos from Youtube, it's as easy as making coffee.

  But I had some problems during the upgrade that brought me to cancel and ask first of all you guys. I am very familiar with ESXi/vSphere, but I

  I just want to ask some friends admin of course :-)

  1. problem: drivers incompatible:

  I started the upgrade and was confronted with an error message regarding the 3rd third-party drivers that will be removed and could adversely affect system

  stability if deleted wrongly.

  The drivers are:

  OEM-VMware-ESX-Drives-net-vxge

  OEM-VMware-ESX-Drives-SCSI-3W-9xxx

  Some googling showed that "vxge" seems to be a network of 10GB Netirion card and '3w-9xxx' is a 3Way SCSI card. None of them belongs to

  my hardware configuration, so I guess I can safely ignore this and say installation force.

  Is this correct so far?

  2 problem

  Setup identifies my two matrices RAID (logical disks) and asks me to choose an update. They have exactly the same same name :-(

  Based on (F1) Details shows me the first disc containing my old installation of ESX 3.5 and the VMFS data store and the second of my current installation of the 4.1U1 and the other data store. So far so good. I would choose the second disc that contains updated 4.1U1 and press ENTER. <>.

  Now comes the big question:

  All the videos and guides for upgrade on the internet show a screenshot that list possible upgrade scenarios:

  [x] upgrade ESXi, preserve the VMFS datastore

  But my box shows (and I found a video on youtube) the following as first option:

  [x] force migrate ESXi, preserve the VMFS datastore

  What is the difference and can I safely go the update? Just to remember, I chose the drive containing the installation of 4.1U1 not the

  container ESX 3.5.

  Who would have something to do with the old installation of ESX 3.5 m on the RAID array other even though I chose the disk containing the curretn 4.1U1 install?

  I really appreciate it someone could help me

  Kind regards

  Oliver

  The installation program does not level you VMFS 5 3 VMFS datastore.  You will need to separately after the upgrade completed.

  The message you see is related to your first questions about different package names.  Given that the installer does not know how update this package, it is just to tell you that he's going to migrate everything on and you may be missing some features.

• Migrate vSphere Essentials of ESXi (free)

  I am running 2 physical hosts:

  -ESXi 4 (simple quad-core CPU)

  -Esxi 3.5 (double dual-core CPU)

  with a handful of virtual machines on each physical host. Each physical host is currently using DAS but I hope possibly migrate storage iSCS and possibly add another ESXi server at any given time.

  I want to take advantage of management features provided by vSphere Essentials (maybe more) but am a little unclear on what is actually needed for upgrade (?) to the essentials and what the structure of the network that results might look like at that time here. I upgraded on the spot or what I provide another physical host with the essentials for operational things?

  Any info is greatly appreciated.

  Well nothing use the vSphere license and upgrade the license for the "free" version  That's it, it's now a licensed product.

  If its ESXi 3.5, you just need the CD to ESX 4.0, run the installation, preserve the VMFS datastore, follow the prompts, restart is.  That's all.

• ESXi 4.0 command line upgrade to ESXi 4.0 U1

  I know there is a method in ESX using "esxupdate", but is there a simple process similar to ESXi commandline? Can someone post a step by step method and let me know which download install? I downloaded this...

  Upgrade the ESXi Server 4.0 package to ESXi Server 4.0 Update 1

  This package provides experienced users with the possibility to upgrade remotely, without head of ESXi Server 4.0 to ESXi Server 4.0 Update 1. Use this package with the Remote Command Line Interface 'vihostupdate '.

  Or is it not available for ESXi?

  Probably because you do not pass in the right syntax params and by default, it will use localhost. All orders of vCLI has always the default value - server, username - and - password (or you can let the password off and you will be asked)

  Try this:

  vihostupdate.pl --server 10.4.75.230 -user user -i -b C:\ESXi-4.0.0-update01.zip
  

  and assuming that the IP is your ESXi host, you will be asked your password

  Note: Also, if you use the vCLI to automate all the tasks, to ensure that you are on an eval edition or duly authorized of ESXi, as you can't use the vCLI with the free version of ESXi else, you will get an error.

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• The upgrade to ESXi 4.1 with storage iSCSI software to ESXi 5.5

  I intend to upgrade ESXi 4.1 with which I have attached to ESXi 5.5 iSCSI software storage

  I've updated all my guests who were on the SAN storage with no problems.

  I would like to know that if it there's nothing I should take care before I update the host connected iSCSI to ESXi 5.5, as for the hosts with SAN attached storage I made to remove the cables of SAN before upgrading the host.

  Also, if all known problems, you will be informed during the upgrade to ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.5 with iSCSI Software storage, please let me know?

  If there is no different process to upgrade coz in ESXi 4.1 I do not see this link ports of iSCSI vmkernel ports software iSCSI but I know in ESXi5.5 we have to or I just launch a procedure of standard upgrade via the Update Manager and everything will be taken care?

  Thanks in advance

  With ESXi prior to version 5, linking ports had to be done via command line. However, if it has been configured correctly, you should be able to upgrade to ESXi 5.5 (assuming that the host has not been previously updated since version 3). BTW. the last time that I disconnected the host of storage for an upgrade has been with ESX 3.0.

  André

• "No found compatible network adapter" Blade HP VirtualConnect upgrade to ESXi 5

  Hello

  I just upgraded a HP Proliant BL490c G6 of ESXi 4.1.0 to ESXi 5.0 U2. The host started OK but did not find the network interface cards. The exact error message at logon on the screen is "no compatible network adapter found. Please consult Hardware Compatibility Guide (HCG product) for supported cards. »

  The host uses HP Virtual Connect for networking.

  As a host ESXi 4 that there worked.

  Using Update Manager 5 it has been then upgraded to ESXi 5 using the Image of ESX Custom HP (HP - ESX - 5.0.2 - standard-iso build 914586), which is when he lost the network cards.

  (A similar upgrade of a G7 BL490c in the same chassis worked well)

  When the blade reached ESXi version 4.1 network cards appeared in the viclient like Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711E/NC532i 10 Gig Ethernet.

  A look at Versions of driver in HP provided images VMware ESX/ESXi http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware-esxi/driver_version.html shows that net-bnx2 - Version - 2.2.1l.v50.1 - 1 & net-bnx2x - Version - 1.72.54.v50.2 - 1 are both included in the image of the building.

  VirtualConnect firmware is version 3.15

  Can someone tell me what is wrong and how to fix it?

  See you soon

  Guy

  You must start the server blades with the "HP for ProLiant Service Pack CD" to update the firmware of the NETWORK adapter.

  Online firmware updates are also possible (using "Smart Components"), but unfortunately not for the network adapters.

  See my HP & VMware links page for the relevant download links.

  -Andreas

• With the help of vicfg-cfgbackup during the upgrade to ESXi

  Hi all

  We are working on the upgrade to ESX 4.1 to 5.1 ESXi.  We do this in a scalable fashion.  Take us a host ESX 4.1 since the cluster, rebuild it from scratch with ESXi 5.1 and then place it in a cluster.  Is it possible or advisable to back up the configuration of ESX 4.1 with vicfg-cfgbackup and then restore this configuration it is upgraded to 5.1 ESXi?  We do not have Enterprise Plus license so profiles host is not an option (or at least that's my understanding).

  Thanks for your help and advice!

  I don't know that there is an 'official' answer on that, but check out http://communities.vmware.com/thread/392759 for more information.

• Best way to upgrade to ESXi 4.1 ESXi 3.5

  Hello

  I have two hosts, one with ESXi 3.5 (free) and the other with ESXi (free) 4.1, both with local storage. I am bit concerned by the attempt to upgrade the 3.5 host, as I don't want to meet problems due to upgrade failures. Instead, I want to move the virtual machines from the host 3.5 to 4.1 host. If everything works, I can do a clean installation of the 4.1 on the old host, and then replace the virtual machines. I won't lose anything.

  Maybe I'll buy a license of vSphere Essentials, but I don't know if this will help me moving virtual machines as the host 3.5 will be without a permit until the migration is complete. Am I wrong? Is vSphere Essentials enough to make migration cold also?

  Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

  Hello

  You can try one of the methods would be to:

  Stop the VM on the host 3.5

  Using the data browser (or preferably Veeam FastSCP) store copies the virtual host 3.5 computer records to the 4.1 a

  Save the virtual machines on the host 4.1 and light to ensure that they transferred ok before you wipe the host 5.5

  Rebuild your webhost 3.5 with 4.1 and once done just reverse the procedure to bring virtual machines

  This saves any expenditure and should work just fine. =)

  Hope this helps

  Adam

• How can I determine if the host is ESXi free or licensed?

  How can one know if an ESXi host is ESXi free, or if it is allowed?

  I searched through the crowd on a couple of different configurations and I don't see anything obvious that indicates this.  I ask because there are some features that only work on ESXi under license and would like to be able to detect the server type I'm talking about.

  I guess that there is a way to do so under the ha - Manager of licenses.

  Thank you

  Eric

  The method that I use to check for this in my scripts is to use the licenseManager watch ownership licenses and see if the license is equivalent to "esxBasic", the host is ESXi, if both these things are true, then you are using the free version of ESXi. In my view, there is another method in which the free version does not contain the full name of some kind, but I forgot what it was. If the above solution worked for me for some time and is simple to check

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