upgrade 5.5 to 6.02

[marcosmendozaa]

Hello everyone,

I need to upgrade my vSphere environment from 5.5 to 6.02

My infraestructure is as follow:

1 VCSA (inside on one of my hosts)

3 host (Blade HS22, HS22 and HS23)

27 virtual machines (9 per host)

*We could mantain my 27 VMs in 2 host.

*I have Enterprice Licencing

*I have enablee EVC Intel Nehalem

*I have enabled DRS and HA

What is the recommendation to perform the upgrade?

Thanks in advance.

[rcporto]

The first step is upgrade your vCenter Server, take a look at the following KB article for best practices: Upgrading to vCenter Server 6.0 best practices (2109772) | VMware KB

After upgrade the vCenter to version 6.0 U2, before upgrade the hosts, check if they are supported by VMware to run version 6.0. I believe that only HS23 supports vSphere 6, the HS22 and HS22V supports only vSphere 5.5 Update 3, take a look here: VMware Compatibility Guide - System Search

For best practices in upgrade the hosts, see: Best practices to install or upgrade to VMware ESXi 6.0 (2109712) | VMware KB

[marcosmendozaa]

Hi rcporto‌

You're right, It seems that HS22 doesn't support vSphere 6.

In this case, could I upgrade vCenter to Version 6 and mantain my ESXi as 5.5? or it is not recommendable?

Thanks in advance!

[rcporto · Accepted solution]

You can upgrade your vCenter to version 6 and manage hosts from version 5.x and 6.x without problems.

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