VC 2.5 and ESX 3.0.2

[RickPollock]

I know I saw a compatibility matrix somewhere, but heck if I can find it now. Can you use VC 2.5 to manage 3.0.2 hosts? If so, is anyone doing this successfully? I tried to connect to one of my hosts using the VC 2.5 client is it only prompted me to download the 2.0 version of the client.

Just trying to plan out my upgrade path and this compatibility issue is a key factor!

[MR-T]

Yes you can manage ESX 2.x & 3.x servers with VC 2.5.

Yes I have tested this with 3.0.2 and it works.

[MR-T]

VI Client version 2.0.1 can only manage ESX 3.0.x

VI Client version 2.0.2 can only manage ESX 3.0.x

VI Client version 2.5 should be able to manage ESX 3.0.x, 3.5 & 3i

[RickPollock]

Did you just import your hosts into 2.5 or perform an upgrade on VC 2.0 with hosts already added?

Right now I have several hosts in VC 2.0. If I upgrade that to VC 2.5 would I need to perform any other tasks?

[RickPollock]

One more question. I'm running 3.0.2 and VMFS version is 3.2.1. ESX 3.5 is version 3.3.1.

All the hosts can "see" all the LUN's in the SAN. What will happen if I upgrade a host that has a running VM on the LUN?

[MR-T]

During the beta I upgraded my VC 2.0.2 to 2.5 and it contained a number of 3.0.2 hosts.

Yesterday I deployed a new VC 2.5 and just added my ESX 3.0.2 host to this.

I've not experienced a problem.

[MR-T · Accepted solution]

Allowing an ESX 3.5 host to access the VMFS volumes created with 3.0.2 shouldn't cause any problems as you're not re-formatting the disk.

As far as I'm aware, there's no significant difference between the 2 versions.

I've not read of any issues with older hosts seeing LUNS formated by 3.5 servers.

[RickPollock]

Thanks for your help!

[esiebert7625]

http://vmware.com/pdf//vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_compat_matrix.pdf

Eric Siebert

VMware Communities User Moderator

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