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supriyavcp
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How to upgrade ESX 3.5 to ESXi 5

HI All,

I have faced one interview question how to upgrade ESX3.5 to ESXi5.0 and how many license will required for this upgrade

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Suresh VCP

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MauroBonder
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Welcome to the Community,

Have a tool to help with this scenario.  (http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/upgrade-center/vsphere-licensing-ad...)

vSphere Licensing Advisor

The VMware vSphere Licensing Advisor allows users with vSphere 4.1, vSphere 4.0 and Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 environments to calculate and understand their vRAM usage and vRAM capacity as if they upgraded to vSphere 5.0. The tool will show you the vRAM capacity and usage for each vSphere 5.0 equivalent edition.

How to Use the Tool

  1. Download and install the tool
  2. Run the vSphere Licensing Advisor and enter the IP Address, Username and Password of your vCenter Server. If you have multiple vCenter Servers, you can add them one at a time on the main screen or upload a single text file listing all of them.
  3. After the data is collected from the vCenter Servers, the results are displayed on the main page.

Notes:

  • The tool requires JRE 1.6 or higher.
  • Editions are displayed as their vSphere 5.0 equivalents using standard entitlement paths.
  • If you have vCenter Servers in linked mode, you will need to connect to each vCenter Server.
  • The tool displays vRAM usage and capacity at the single point in time the data is gathered.
  • The tool will work in environments with Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, vSphere 4.0 and vSphere 4.1. Environments with vCenter Server 4.x managing Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 hosts are not supported with this tool.

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adelisa
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Hi supriyavcp,

Welcome to community.

There is no direct upgrade path to from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 5.0 upgrade.

You will have to completely reinstall ESXi 5 on the host, we have detailed

information about this in our upgrade guide.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-upgrade... you tried belwo link also ?

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