Hi,
We're currently running vSphere 4.1 (vCenter 4.1 & ESXi 4.1) and are planning to migrate to either 5.1 or 5.5. We would like to go directly to vCenter 5.5 and ESXi 5.5 but some of our 3rd party drivers (Xsigo Oracle drivers, NetApp stuff, etc.) may not be compatible with ESXi 5.5 at this time.
Is it a good idea to go with vCenter 5.5 and ESXi 5.1 hosts? Is there any downside with this setup besides losing the new features in ESXi 5.5? Going with vCenter 5.5 will allow us to skip the SSO complexity that's in vCenter 5.1.
Thanks.