Upgrading from vi3.5 to vSphere, Best Practise for vCenter Heartbeat

[Nautilus]

Hi,

vcenter is a virtual Mashine with vcenter 4U1. Now i want upgrade the hosts from 3.5 to vsphere.

What is the best way to upgrade the vcenter VM ? Because i have to upgrade the vmware tools, upgarde virtual Hardware, some reboots.....

I will upgrade the hosts on Site1 this Week and the Hosts on the Site 2 nect week.

2 Sites (routed Network), 3 Hosts on each Site. All Hosts are 3.5

thanks for any help

[krowczynski]

Hi,

at first are you really using vcenter4 U2????

So the best way it would be if you have VUm installed, to create some baselines and upgrade as following.

- Upgrade your host to vsphere 4

- Upgrade your vmtools of your vms (reboot)

- Upgrade you vhardware (reboot)

MCP, VCP

[Nautilus]

upps, sorry U1, its a little bit early in the morning

this is the way for "normal VMs".

But i'am talking about vcenter VM with heartbeat installation and Howe can update booth vcenter nodes.

[krowczynski]

Oh,

okay in this case, make a backup of the vcenter db, and run vcenter4 setup (tools, vhardware) on each node.

MCP, VCP

[laurag]

There are 2 KB articles that describe the upgrade procedure of vCenter Server that might help you.

One is when you have both vCenter and SQL protected, and the other one is when you have only vCenter protected.

Hope these help,

Laura

[Nautilus]

Hi Laura,

thanks for the links.

My vcenter Server is 4U1 and booth nodes are VMs on hosts with esx 3.5. Now i want/have to upgrade the hosts to vsphere 4. And after upgrade the hosts, i have upgrade vmwaretools and virtual hardware. There are some installations processes and modification the virtual hardware inside the VM and ofcourse some reboots.

Now i'am looking for best practice or a white paper.

Have a nice Day

Nauti

[nmorisod]

Hi,

i've looked th Kb Acrticle and i don't exactly understand what the below sentence mean :

Before proceeding with the upgrade, add a Management IP address to the Secondary Server.

Add a temporary Management IP address on the Principal (Public) NIC from the same subnet as Principal (Public) IP address.

How do you add a temporary address? in the Heartbeat config or in the network card ?

Does anyone have a clue ?

Thanks in advance

Nicolas

[Nautilus]

Hi,

i upgrade my Haeratbeat environment and go this way

- First stop replication

- go to the passive Node, shutdown this, make snapshot so you can everytime to this point

- install and upgrade this VM

- when you start this node and everthink wotks fine so switchover and do the same tasks for this node

- when anythink works fine so delete snapshot

Kind regards

Nautilus

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[nmorisod]

Hi,

Thanks, but don't need the procedure to upgrade, "laurag" already sent it, but in the "vCenter and SQL protected" procedure, i don't know how to

Add a temporary Management IP address on the Principal (Public) NIC from the same subnet as Principal (Public) IP address.

Regards,

Nicolas

[nmorisod]

Hi,

Thanks, but don't need the procedure to upgrade, "laurag" already sent it, but in the "vCenter and SQL protected" procedure, i don't know how to

Add a temporary Management IP address on the Principal (Public) NIC from the same subnet as Principal (Public) IP address.

Regards,

Nicolas

[laurag]

The temporary management IP has to be added on the Principal (Public) NIC ( TCP/IP properties/Advanced/IP settings). It cannot and should not be added in vCSHB configuration wizard for this procedure.

Cheers,

Laura

[nmorisod]

Thanks Laurag will try that ..