Upgrading ESX 3.5 to 3.5U3

[MadAsToast]

Greetings All,

We currently run 3 ESX servers (version 3.5.0, 82663) and I have been tasked with a "pilot" version of vmView, to get the ful functionality out of this product we need to be running 3.5 U3.

The question is, is this a case of using the most recent image, and selecting upgrade - then make sure I leave all the luns and partitions exactly as they are in the upgrade?

All the images are stored on a Fibre attached SAN which all 3 hosts share, we are running HA & Vmotion.

I have read the "upgrade guide" which covers upgrades of pretty much everything except this.

Any help would be fantastic.

T.I.A

MadAsToast

[kooltechies]

Hi,

Yes , while you do an upgrade of the ESX 3.5 servers you need to select the Keep VMFS volumes option during the installation . This will make sure that your VMFS volumes are not formatted.

Thanks,

Samir

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[MadAsToast]

Many Thanks for your reply.

Is it best to use the full product to run the upgrade from or the installable update?

VMware ESX 3.5 Update 3 - Latest Version: 3.5 Update 3 | 2008/11/06 | Build: 123630

or

VMware ESXi 3.5 Installable Update 3 - Latest Version: 3.5 Update 3 | 2008/11/06 | Build: 123629

Both would appear to be acceptable, just wondering if you've had experience of either?

thanks again.

[kooltechies]

Hey,

Both are different here one is ESX server and one is ESXi server , never do an upgrade of ESX server to ESXi server thats not the correct upgrade path. If you are using ESX then use this VMware ESX 3.5 Update 3 - Latest Version: 3.5 Update 3 | 2008/11/06 | Build: 123630 do not use VMware ESXi 3.5 Installable Update 3 - Latest Version: 3.5 Update 3 | 2008/11/06 | Build: 123629 for upgrade.

Thanks,

Samir

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[kooltechies · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Can you please mark the question as answered if you have got the required information.

Thanks,

Samir

[MadAsToast]

Hi,

I'm still currently in the throws of upgrading, once I have finished, I will certainly mark this as completed, however just wanted to keep this open until i've finished in case of problems.

Thanks