vCenter vsphere with hosts in esxi 3.5

Hello!

I would like to know different things.

First of all if I migrate vsphere vcenter could I maintain my ESX 3.5i hosts?

Or I must have at least a host on vsphere and other in ESX 3.5 I have?

The second thing is if I update a single host is this host will write all the data on the storage? (guests on the storage worldwidenames)

Thank you

for the help

There is no reason for hepatitis a at least a better host. You will be able to connect to vCenter 4 and ESX 3.5 hosts using the vSphere Client (in fact, you'll have the VI Client and installed the vSphere client).

I have only a few concerns about maintaining this scenario for a long time because maybe you can run some buggy not covered by vmware - question example, sometimes that you have problems on the properties of the data store discovers with ESX 3.5 under vCenter 4.

Marcelo Soares

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