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• VSphere upgrade

  What are the detailed steps for upgrading ESX 3.5 to VSphere 4.1? Preconditions for review before any installation/upgrade?

  Hello

  Thread moved to the vSphere upgrade and install Forum.

  Be sure to post in the appropriate forum.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

  Host communities, VMware vExpert,

  Author: VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security,VMware ESX and ESXi in the 2nd business edition

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• presentations of vSphere upgrade phase

  I watched the webcast "How to upgrade from VMware Infrastructure 3 VMware vSphere 4 ' the other day and it showed in the webcast, they had made videos of webcast for each of the 3 phases of the upgrade.  I had written in my notes that these videos were located at www.vmware/com/products/vsphere/upgrade-center, but when I went to this place I couldn't find the webcasts.  Can someone point me in the right direction?  I am planning on the part of the management of the update in the next week and wanted to see their webcast for this phase of the upgrade.

  There

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/upgrade-Center/upgrade.html

  or simply click on the 'Upgrade' on the URL tab you mentioned

  André

• EQL / VSM / MEM / vSphere upgrade order

  Hello

  I see now that v8, MEM 1.3 EQL and VSM 4.5 have been released as EPA so I can upgrade to vSphere 6!

  Is there an order of upgrade recommended for all of these components?  I guess EQL v8 first, then the environment vSphere, then MEM, then VSM?

  I think I read THAT MEM 1.2 was not compatible with vSphere 6?  If this is the case, I guess I have to switch to the RR before upgrading vSphere and then apply 1.3 MEM?

  Thanks in advance!

  Hello

  I agree first of all of the firmware on board.  Remove the MEM, then upgrade vSphere Server v6 then ESXi nodes to v6.0.  You can do MEM or VSM in order any at that time.

  Kind regards

  Don

• Issue of license associated with vSphere upgrade from 5.5 to 6

  I want to improve my environment to vSphere 5.5 to 6.

  I have several ESXi servers and 1 vCenter server. Some servers ESXi serving direct environment and a test environment.

  I want to upgrade, step by step so, install the new server vSephere and upgrade test environment 6.0 ESXi servers. and then run a few days test environment.

  Upgrade needs, I need to convert the license keys to 6.0.

  Can I run then simultaneously the two environemts two or three days? (living environment using license keys 5.5 and 6.0 keys environment converted from 5.5 test keys)?

  Some key ESXi are used in several ESXi is used according to CPU sockets associated with these keys.

  Believe me, it does not, it may seem, but you pile up errors for later.   It would be a better option to generate a vCenter 6 in eval mode and go that route.

• Y at - it no downtime of ESxi hosts with vsphere upgrade 5.0 to 5.1?

  During the upgrade process after asked the OSP and the inventory service, there is a point where vsphere agent must be installed on Esxi hosts. There is an automatic and a manual option. Will be the hosts be restarted if I select the automatic option?

  Thank you

  obj1 wrote:

  During the upgrade process after asked the OSP and the inventory service, there is a point where vsphere agent must be installed on Esxi hosts. There is an automatic and a manual option. Will be the hosts be restarted if I select the automatic option?

  Thank you

  The upgrade of the agent vSphere is transparent.

  You can lose the remote management of vCenter for a short period, but the virtual machines on that host will work without interruption.

• vSphere Upgrade without interruption

  Hello

  This is the scenario:

  10 5.0 ESXi hypervisor (free edition) with local storage

  All virtual machines must be available 24/7

  What I do:

  Upgrade to a paid version (std)

  Upgrade to 5.1

  Present a shared storage and virtual machines move it

  Install a server vCenter Server and add all hosts that he

  Suggestions for making the part "upgrade" without interruption for virtual machines? Then I just move them using storage available in 5.1 vSphere vmotion std.

  I can think of a way to do this, but I'd like to hear other members of VMware communities

  Thanks in advance!

  elgreco81

  In this case I'll use just key in the trial installation and migration, ultimately it's what you would do when he was a new environment, I do not think that VMware will be too picky about...

• vSphere Upgrade Guide 5.1?

  Given that vSphere 5.1 has been officially released, is there a guide to upgrade?

  I'm looking not for anything extremely detailed... I have just a (standalone) 5.0 development ESXi host I want to upgrade to 5.1 and I do not know the steps I have to follow...

  All documents related to vSpher 5.1 can be found here

  I did the upgrade by using the ISO earlier in the day and it was pretty simple.

  Load ISO and reboot the host and follow the menus screen on.

  When he asks him below, select the appropriate and go ahead

  Upgrade to ESXi, preserve the VMFS datastore
  Install ESXi, preserve the VMFS datastore
  Install ESXi, crush VMFS datastore

• How to vSphere 4.1 vSphere Upgrade 5

  Hello

  I am currently using essential 6 Core CPU ESX 4.1 vSphere, I want to upgrade to ESX 5 licensed.

  Note: The ESX 4.1 installed on HP DL380 but I want to get to level 5 with new material that is DL 580.

  my current configuration of the server is G5 6 Core with 2 physical processors.

  new server configuration is G7 8 Core with 2 physica processor.

  Kindly guide me how to change and move all present VM in new?

  NOTE: I have two hosts with Clustered and HA.

  Kind regards

  Badr.

  Yes, according to "the VMware product interoperability matrices" (I have provided the link above) the hosts - ESX 4.1 Update 1 (348481) - are supported with vCenetr Server 5.0 and 5.0 Update 1.

  André

• cannot add the new hard drive more than 2 TB on vsphere upgrade 5

  can someone give me a clue? I can't add new greater than 2 TB drive to my vm on my upgraded vsphere 5.0. My data store is 6 TB and already read by vsphere... I create new virtual machine and add the new drive, but it limits again just 2 TB when I change 4 TB, the error message will appear. I recently added my datastore LUN with VMFS5 version. is there a any mistake I made? Please help me this problem is so frustrating me... i need to create new disk 6 TB to my new file server

  Hello.

  You will need to use a RDM in physical Compatibility Mode to achieve. As weinstein5 said, a VMDK cannot be greater than 2-to-512bytes. You can use the OS to spread over several 2 TB-512bytes VMDK, if that's what you really want.

  Good luck!

• Question on Vsphere upgrade from ESX3.5 update 3

  We currently have our VCServer and race, but I'll be upgrading for Vsphere 4.0 Update 1. To do this, I need to build a new server, because our current server is not compatible with the hardware requirements. First of all, is there an easy way to migrate the settings from one server to another? Also the networks I will build as my local lan and my dmz, network adapter settings, etc... be there when I take my guests on the new Vsphere server. Are the specific server VC parameters or appearing in ESX boxes themselves?

  jkoelker wrote:

  So since I only change my virtual Center Server and without changing the physical material of boxes ESX but upgrading from 4.0 I still need to worry recreate all my settings. Depending on your position, the parameters are all specific to the ESX boxes and not the server Vcenter himself? I read that correctly? The only thing that happens is my Vcenter server. I'll put as the utility to update on what will update my esx boxes and Vsphere.

  If you do an upgrade to ESX4, so yes all the settings will be retained.

  I was under the impression that you have been rebuild the ESX host, that would be my choice of the upgrade.

• vSphere upgrade and v - lan

  Currently, we have a few load VLAN defined in the VIC, would be the upgrade to vCenter needs of special procedures to preserve these support VLAN so that my VMs will be still available after the upgrade. Or passage from ESX3.5 to vSphere needs of specific procedures for preserves these load VLAN so that my VMs will be always would be available after the upgrade. People new installation vCenter installation of the upgrade of the VIC? If we install fresh the vcenter, what would happen to my support of VLAN. What happens if we want to do a new installation for vSphere, what would happen to my support of VLAN.

  As you can see, I'm quite worried on my load VLAN thanks for help.

  A new install of ESX4 (i) would be exactly that.  You have to re-create all your networking and VLAN settings on the hosts once again.

• VSphere upgrade document

  Can any body provide me with any other document then vmware pdf files where most of the steps are on the next page to upgrade esx 3.5 in vsphere 4.0.

  Here's a good if you use vCenter and VUM

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/17/upgrading-ESX-35-to-the-next-version-with-Update-Manager/

  Here is using the host update utility

  http://balld31.blogspot.com/2009/06/part-4-upgrading-from-ESX-35-to-vSphere.html

  .. .and finally, even if...

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/R40/vsp_40_upgrade_guide.PDF

• To manage in vSphere upgrade

  I just upgraded my VC to vSphere server... I have a single host ESX 3.5 running under VC.  Can I upgrade this ESX4 via the Update Manager? This will affect anything? given that the host is connected to our existing SAN... Thank you.

  > I have not yet to any ESX 4.0 host.

  Then migrate all virtual machines to other ESXes, 3.5 and 4.0 are fully compatible and can work together in the same cluster if you use virtual machines with hardware worm. 4 only.

  I want to install on a local hard disk and run VMS on the SAN.

  If you are running 3.5 HD local - UM will be updated to 3.5 to 4.0 and it will run from the local HD is not question where you run VMs of.

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• Parallel VSphere upgrade?

  Hello

  Just looking for advice - we have vCenter 2.5 and 2 ESX 3.5 U3 Clusters, with one ESX host that is licensed for Lab Manager, 3 other guests are in the other Cluster running our production VMs. I want to 'upgrade' to vSphere, but I leave the old VirtualCenter and configuration Lab Manager intact. In my view, this means that I have to install a new virtual machine for vCenter 4.0 and then perform a new installation of vSphere 4.0 on each of the other 3 hosts? My question revolves around the SMV Production. I think it's the way forward:

  Turn off the virtual machines of Production and disable DRS / HA

  Remove all virtual machines in the vCenter inventory Production

  Put the ESX 3 hosts

  Install vSphere 4.0 on the same host. Import DC. VMs build vCenter 4.0 VM. Create a new data center, Cluster etc. Install vSphere 4.0 on the remaining hosts, add to the Cluster. Import all virtual machines of Production and give them to the top.

  I think not upgraded vSphere the VMFS partition so that must remain intact? I need to improve VMTools on each virtual machine, and then upgrade the hardware of the virtual computer to version 7. Am I missing something or is at - it another way to maintain Lab Manager and always move our Production environment vSphere 4.0?

  Thank you

  Mike

  Hello

  I think it should work if you are installing a new server vCenter Server and deletes the hosts of the former and then adding them to the new.

  You must install the update on a new virtual machine Manager and use it to upgrade the hosts.

  No problem with the vmfs, they are intact.

  You must upgrade all VMTools but wait a bit before upgrade you virtual hardware.

  Too long, you keep the material on version 4, you have the procedure to return to version 3.5.

  Concerning

  Mikael