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sungpillhan2
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Upgrading only vCenter from 6.5 to 6.7 without support agreement

Hello,

I have a client who doesn't want to extend service agreement for vSphere and vCenter.

Their current specs are ;

vCenter 6.5 8815520

vSphere: 6.5 8935087

As Flash support on all browsers ends by Dec, 2020, they have to upgrade to 6.7 Update3, but they don't have service agreement.

So I went to my.vmware.com and was able to download 6.7 Update 3 for vCenter. What is the consequence of installing this update for vCenter without service agreement?

Will it be just for them not having technical support if the upgrade encounters any problem?

Also, is it OK, just to upgrade vCenter only, not vSphere? I think it's OK as vCenter 6.7 supports ESXi vSphere 6.0...

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scott28tt
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

License keys are the same for 6.0/6.5/6.7 so no issue there: VMware Knowledge Base

However...

If they are running any workloads on their environment that they care about, they are already taking a huge risk with not having a contract.

ESXi 6.0 is already out of support, even if they did have a contract.

It is best practice to run vCenter Server and ESXi on the same version if possible.


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IRIX201110141
Champion
Champion

Technicly you will not get a problem because the license keys did not change within 6.x and VCSA 6.7u3 can manage 6.0 Hosts.

Legally....it depends. If their Subscriptions ends before 6.5u3 becomes available your not "allowed" to use that version.

Question: What vSphere Edition they have in use?  The small Essentials bundle costs 62,- EUR Subscription per year.

Regards,
Joerg

scott28tt
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Moderator: Thread moved to the vCenter Server area.


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