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Precht
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How are you upgrading to 5.5?

We have a medium size VM environment; aproximately 8 hosts with about 150 vms.

Upgrading to 5.1 from 5.0 was a little daunting with the implementation of SSO.  Best practices at the time stated to separate SSO from vCenter. Which I did. I combined SSO and Inventory Services together, and the other was vCenter, Web Client, and Update Manager on one system.  The setup has been working great so far.

Now with 5.5 they recommend putting all the services into a single system.  I understand that SSO is now completely independent (multi-master) how is everyone planning to upgrade?  Are you planning to change the architecture because of the new recommendation?

Also, what happens with the database for 5.1 SSO?  Can it be deleted? Should it? 

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sanjeebkumar
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Is your setup is windows vcenter or VCSA?

Note: In vsphere 5.5 there is no external database for SSO.

raog
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You can still continue in the same fashion as what you currently have. The recommendation is to have everything on a single VM, but that is what it is: A "recommendation" . Doesnt mean you cant have other configs Smiley Happy

Once you have upgraded to 5.5 successfully, you can delete the DB.

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Girish

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Precht
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Raog,

Thanks for the response. It was what I was looking for.

That's that I can remove the DB. I'm kind of OCD about keeping things clean.

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sanjeebkumar

I'm running a Windows vCenter.

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