View 5.1 Upgrade on a Different Machine

[DCDSDfradeneck]

I have View server 5.0 on a Win 2003 machine and I need to upgrade it to 5.1.  According to the documentation, "Upgrade at least one existing View Connection Server instance to View 5.1. See “Upgrade View Connection Servers in a Replicated Group,” on page 25. During this upgrade, your existing View LDAP will be upgraded."  I do not have another View server that I can upgrade to 5.1 first as this is my only View server.

Can I safely install View 5.1 on the new server and be done with it (since I only want 1 View Server)?  Or is there a more involved process?

[mittim12 · Accepted solution]

Since View 5.1 is only supported on 2K8 R2 operating systems I would follow the steps below.

1:  Build new 2008 R2 server with 5.0 and join it to exisiting View environment.

2:  Retire 2003 View connection broker.

3:  Upgrade 2008 R2 server to View 5.1

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