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MichaelLeone
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I just did my update this morning. Went exactly as the seminar showed, and the documents list. Personally, I was shocked. :slightly_smiling_face: I stopped the vCenter services, than ran the upgrade, and it all Just Worked. Then I updated the vSphere client, then updated the Update Manager. All this was on the vCenter server.

Then I updated the vSphere client, and Update client, on my workstation, and it all Just Worked.

Downtime was under 30 minutes, probably under 20 ...

Had a little bit of trouble, as the update manager was giving an error that it could not download patch definitions, but that turned out to be a problem with Internet access on the vCenter server; once I resolved that, the check for new patches Just Worked.

So it looks like I am good to go. I will give it a week or so, to continue running with my ESX 4.1 U1 servers, before I start planning the final steps, about upgrading to ESXi v5.

Then I get to do the fun parts about migrating to new SAN storage, formatted as VMFS v5, etc.

Good times ahead!

I would suggest running that pre-upgrade host checker. Luckily, mine ran clean.

And keep Support's phone number handy, just in case. :slightly_smiling_face:

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