Any Easy to follow steps to upgrade View 5.0 to 5.1 ?

[adrianych]

Hi, anyone have any links or recommendations to upgrade View 5.0 to 5.1 for the less experienced ?

I have 2 VMware VDI hosts each housing about 20 Win7 vPCs.

- VMware View vCenter is on a Virtual Machine on another set of servers (Windows 2008 r2, 2vCPU, 8GB RAM, SQL 2008 Std)

- VMware View composer & connection manager is on a Virtual Machine on another set of servers (Windows 2008 r2, 2vCPU, 4GB RAM)

[Linjo]

How about the official View 5.1 Upgrade guide?

http://pubs.vmware.com/view-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/view-51-upgrades.pdf

// Linjo

[adrianych]

I tried reading that.....it seems like it would take months to complete.

BTW, we just implemented our View 5.0 2 mths back. The vendor took 2 weeks to set up.

[Linjo]

That is not my experience, as long as you have done the prework and understand the new certificate requirements then its smooth sailing.

Have assisted with a number of upgrades and most of them took a few hours only.

// Linjo

[adrianych]

The document is easily 40 pages long.....

Just reading that takes a few hours....

Is there a short version....

Something like :

1. Upgrade ESX

- download XXX

- run XXXX

2. Upgrade vCenter

- shutdown O/S

- run XXXXX

- Startup O/S

3......

4......

[Linjo · Accepted solution]

Sure there is:

http://vinfrastructure.it/en/2012/06/vmware-view-5-1-upgrade-path-steps/

// Linjo

[adrianych]

Thank you very much......this would help newbies like myself....