So I just completed (or so I thought) the upgrade to ESXi 5.1 from 4.1. All of my hardware is compatible. I did receive a warning during the migration that I had some VIP stuff loaded in 4.1 but what it was loaded for I didn't have. So the upgrade completed and when the host rebooted, I saw the new 5.1 boot screen, then after that completed loading and it went to the half grey/half yellow screen it says 4.1. My Fat client for Winders also reads 4.1. Is it possible that the upgrade didn't complete even though it said it did? I put all of my hosts into suspend mode. The only thing I didn't do now that I'm thinking about it, is put the host into maintenance mode. Will that be a deal breaker and I"ll have to suspend all of my guests again? Thank you all in advance for your help with this.
Yes It is not upgraded, You need to upgrade it again.
Venkat
Make sure that upgrade was successful by having a look at the update logs here : "/var/log/esxupdate.log".
~dGeorgey
use vmware -vl command on the console of the server and check the status
Venkat
dGeorgey,
So it appears that I don't have that log file.
Venkat,
So it looks like it did not upgrade?
~ # vmware -vl
VMware ESXi 4.1.0 build-800380
VMware ESXi 4.1.0 Update 3
Should I run the upgrade again?
Thanks
So after re running the upgrade, I am now up to 5.1. Thank you all for your help with this.