Hi!
Last time when I upgraded from evaluation version to ESXi 3.5u2 I couldn't find any proper information of how to do it; eventually I went on "repair" route that "repaired" the 3.5u2 on top of existing 3.5u1.
This is stand-alone ESXi environment managed through VI Client (although all the suggestions relating to stand-alone ESXi are welcome, but rather "use the upgrade option on VirtualCenter" are not helpful).
Now that "repair" route required full reconfiguration of resource pools, reimporting VMs, reconfiguring the networks, which will be quite an insult to injury when all the ESXi users are required to patch/upgrade as soon as this time bomb gets fixed.
Could someone with proper insight provide information how we can upgrade ESXi cleanly without losing the existing configuration? I initially took the "repair" route because it was only sensible thing present when booting up from installation media. The install option warns about cleaning out entire partition during the install, which is not feasible operation if you haven't dedicated the partition solely to ESXi (for example we run some common backup/support VMs on that same partition).
Br,
Kalle
