VCenter Upgrade

[#1]

Hi Guys,

I am planning to upgrade my VCenter which is running on VC 5..5 Update 2 and ESXi host is running on 5.5 Update 3. I am seeking your advice to know if I can upgrade directly from VC 5.5 U2 (2001466) to 6.5 U2 and ESXi 5.5.U3 (3116895) to 6.5 U2? All components of VC including SSO installed on the same windows server.

I was looking into the following link but to avoid any doubts, post the question here.

VMware Product Interoperability Matrices

Your help will be appreciated.

Regards

Naveed

[GayathriS]

Hi

Please see below interoperability matrix :

Upgrades or migration of vCenter Server earlier than 5.5 Update 3b when the environment is with an external vCenter Single Sign-On to vCenter Server 6.5 Update 1 with an external Platform Services Controller are unsupported. Also see Release Notes.

For vCenter Server 6.5 U2 onwards, applies to vCenter Server as well as to Update Manager

ESXI :

You can upgrade ESXi to 6.5 U2

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regards

Gayathri

[waydees]

Hi Gayathri,

Thanks for your reply. The conclusion is that we can upgrade VC 5.5 U2 on the existing VC running on Windows 2008 R2 to VC 6.5 U2 and ESXi 5.5 U3 to ESXi 6.5 U2

Regards

NAV

[GayathriS]

Hi Waydees,

As I have already replied you in the first post  ,

NOTE:

Upgrades or migration of vCenter Server earlier than 5.5 Update 3b when the environment is with an external vCenter Single Sign-On to vCenter Server 6.5 Update 1 with an external Platform Services Controller are unsupported. Also see Release Notes.

1>you can upgrade Vcenter 5.5.U2 to 6.5 U2 .

-->When it comes to OS : 6.5 U2 supported below as OS on which it cna be installed :

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 64-bit

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 64-bit

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 64-bit

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit

For more details on OS : please check below KB :

VMware Knowledge Base

2>ESXi Yes you can upgrade ESXi to 6.5 U2

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regards

Gayathri

[SupreetK]

Adding to GayathriS views, this is your best chance to move away from Windows vCenter and migrate to an vCenter appliance. It will soon be deprecated Farewell, vCenter Server for Windows - VMware vSphere Blog​. Using the migration assistant tool, one can easily migrate from Windows vCenter to vCenter Appliance -

https://www.virtuallyboring.com/migrate-windows-vcenter-5-5-6-5-appliance/

Step-by-step: Migrate Windows vCenter server to vCSA 6.5u1 -

Migrating vCenter Server for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance​

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Cheers,

Supreet