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Just my one cents,

Before you want to start upgrading your ESXi, you MUST upgrade your vCenter Server to the upper version or same version to your ESXi hosts if not you cannot managed thru the vCenter for latest ESXi.

For question 1, my answer, If you had diffuclt to use the CLI, you may upgrade from the CDROM installation, when it boot-up, it will ask for Fresh Install / Upgrade. This is most easily way to do it. Or else you may use the CLI which vihostupdate and had to set the depot.

For question 2, It best to recommend that don't mix-up your ESXi version in one single cluster if not may occur a issue in future, The best tools is depending on your which one you like to used, You may use either using CD upgrading (same as cd installation) or Update Manager, which Update manager you able to schedule on it, Since the vCenter is a VM, you need to migrate to non upgrading host before upgrading it.

it better you upgrade your vCenter directly to v5.0.1, it able to managed v5.0 below, and you able to put-in new node of ESXi v5.0 and upgrading it without need to upgrade the vCenter 2 times.

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