Confused with Versions and Updates

[rowelld]

I'm relatively new to vmware and as I'm getting used to our current setup I find myself confused.

As I am logged into the VMware Infrastructure Client I click on Help and About VMware Infrastructure. It says the client is version 2.5.0 build 147704 and Virtual Center is 2.5.0 build 147633.

When I look at my hosts I can see they are VMware ESX Server 3.5.0, 176894

My question is, how do I go about updating my hosts and also VMware Infrastructure, if any.

I'm a bit confused because I've gone through a class for vSphere 4 and I'm trying to understand the differences between the two.

[Troy_Clavell]

This may help with how to determine build numbers

....as for upgrading, you may want to start with

[jbruelasdgo]

http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/build-numbers/

Jose B Ruelas

http://aservir.wordpress.com

[weinstein5 · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Forums - yes it is confusing ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 are the previous version of VMware's flagship and were components of Virtual Infrastructure 3 also called VI-3 - with the release of the new version VMware is bringing everything up to a common version number 4 so ESX/ESXi is now versoin 4 - Virtual Center is now version 4 as well and has a new name vCenter - and are components of vSphere - liking anywhere with software updates you get better perfromance and new features like VMware Fault Tolerance, distributed switches, 8 vCPUs and 256 GB maximums for virtual machines -

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