I have vCenter 5.0 running on WIndows 2003 R2 HP Proliant DL380 G4 server. We have small environment, just 4 ESXi hosts and 50 VMs so I am using MS SQl 2005 Express.
I would like to upgrade vCenter to version 5.5
Windows 2003 R2 is not supported for vCenter 5.5. HP DL380 G4 is not supported/certified for Windows 2008 R2.
It looks like my only option is to install fresh vCenter 5.5 on Windows 2008 R2 on new hardware. ![]()
Is there any other options? is it possible to migrate database or any other settings from my vCenter 5.0 to a new vCenter 5.5? How to make upgrade process less painful?
Thank you for your help and advice!