Upgrade VMware vsphere 5.5 to 6.5 U2, Vcenter 5.5 windows to Vcenter 6.5 U2

[youthin]

@Dear All,

Currently, My company want to Upgrade VMware vsphere 5.5 to 6.5 U2, Vcenter 5.5 windows to Vcenter 6.5 U2.

Could you provide me step by step how to do it?

Best regards,

[peetz]

Greetings and welcome to the forums,

I suggest that you start with the official VMware documentation available here:

About vSphere Upgrade

Besides from that there numerous blog posts available on the topic, e.g. here:

vSphere 6.5 Upgrade Considerations Part-2 - VMware vSphere Blog

- Andreas

[daphnissov]

I also strongly recommend you go directly to the vCSA and do *not* upgrade your Windows platform as that is end of life.

[peetz]

To be precise it is not "end of life". It will still exist, but will be deprecated in the next major release of vSphere (7.0), and in the next release after that it will be gone. But you are right, VMware will probably add new features only to the vCSA, so it is a smart move to switch to it now.

[youthin]

Thanks FYI,

[youthin]

Sure?