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Upgrade vCenter server from 4.1 to 5.x - which route

Hi,

I have a 4.1 licence with the option to upgrade (free) to 5.x. One vCenter server as a VM managing 4 hosts with iSCSI SAN.

Which route would you take to upgrade vCenter:

1) In place upgrade (after backing up the VM)

2) Create brand new VM, install vCenter 5.x and remove the hosts from 4.1 and add to 5.x?

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Notes and thoughts:

My vCenter sever is self contained - MSSQL and all supporting services except DNS and mail run on it.

Option 1 is probably the easiest.

Option 2 gives a warm and fuzzy feeling of starting anew without cruft. However, it scares me that it might break the system and I suspect I'll lose my performance stats going back 3 years.

What do you folk think? Not done this particular upgrade before...

Many thanks - Tim

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