upgrading 3.0 - 3.5 standard

[JRink]

I've gone through the vi3_35_25.pdf upgrade document and for the 95 pages it perused, it seems like there's very little to do for a 3.01 to 3.5 upgrade. Alot of the docs seem to pertain mostly to 2.5.

I want to verify I'm doing the upgrade correctly so I thought I'd doublecheck here.

I have an ESX 3.0.1 Standard Edition server that I recently upgraded. I do not use Virtual Center at all. Basically, I just put the bootable 3.5 CD in the drive, rebooted the server, told it to Upgrade the current version, and let it do it's thing. After it finished and ESX restarted, I logged into the VI client, deleted my license and re-applied my license.

Is there anything else I'm missing? It seemed WAY too easy considering there was 95 pages of "how to upgrade" in that document I read...

[cody_bunch]

It is a pretty straight forward process.

~ Cody Bunch

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Pretty much what you describe is all that is needed. You did not even have to delete your license unless you were changing from Standard to Enterprise for example or adding new features.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[JRink]

So... based on that, it doesn't even look like I have to do anything different in my VMs are stored on a SAN and not on local storage?