Problem in Upgrade esxi from 6.0 to 7.0

[Hamid314]

HI,

our environment has multiple HPE G7 and currently on esxi6.0 . We have new physical servers (HPE G10) that we want to stand up as our new esxi servers . because of G7 (Support esxi6.0 u3) we cannot migrate directly from 6.0 to 7.0 . we use shared storage and vcenter 6.7 for now , but when migrate to esxi7.0 we want change vCenter to v7.0 .

now our problem is there is critical VMs in G7 hosts that we don't want them turn off . without Downtime we want upgrade , is that possible ????

[VMAKS · Accepted solution]

@Hamid314

Thank you for posting on VMware Communities.

I would recommend you to install ESXi 6.7 on HPE Gen10 servers and add it to the vCenter 6.7.
Then move all the VMs from ESXi 6.0 on HPE G7 servers to ESXi 6.7 on HPE Gen10 servers.
Once all the VMs from HPE G7 servers are vacated, remove them from vCenter 6.7 inventory.

Now, at this stage both your vCenter & ESXi will be at 6.7.
Please proceed with VCSA 6.7 upgrade and then the ESXi to 7.0 for HPE Gen10 servers.

Regards,

Arun Kumar

Install Upgrade Specialist

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