ESXi 4.1 upgrade and 32-bit DSN

[fgl]

We are working on a plan to upgrade our existing 4.0 U2 vSphere to 4.1 and we have a question regarding the current DSN we have under vCenter now. The DSN we have were created as 32-bit but the OS is 2008 SP2 64-bit and I remember needing to create them (vCenter database and Update Manager database) as 32-bit for vCenter 4.0. We plan on doing a in-place upgrade of 4.0 U2 to 4.1 but we can't seem to figure out if we still need to manually create another DSN entry for the vCenter database under 64-bit or will the upgrade process automatically create that from the 32-bit one. We know that Update Manager DSN still needs to be 32-bit so that probably won't change. We ran the pre-upgrade check utility and it came back clean but it doesn't seem to really check the DSN type. Anyone done this upgrade senario?

Thanks in advance.

[vmroyale]

Hello.

We plan on doing a in-place upgrade of 4.0 U2 to 4.1 but we can't seem to figure out if we still need to manually create another DSN entry for the vCenter database under 64-bit or will the upgrade process automatically create that from the 32-bit one.

You will need to manually create a new 64-bit DSN for vCenter.

Good Luck!