Upgrade information help

vijaysys2007 · ‎07-06-2017

Team

I have a below version of ESXi running in DC.... vCenter is 5.5.0--3252642

What would be ideal way of upgrade path for my VCenter and ESXi hosts.

Should I upgrade first ESXi and vCenter second.. and 5.0 to 5.5 and then 5.5 to 6.5 will it be possible?

With out any disturbance to current running config, how to execute without any issues?

Thanks

dekoshal · ‎07-06-2017

Please check out below KB article before you start with the upgrade

For upgrade path :

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Best Regards,

Deepak Koshal

CNE|CLA|CWMA|VCP4|VCP5|CCAH

vijaysys2007 · ‎07-07-2017

Thanks for the links. Still I'm not able to find the best way of upgrade sequence... vCenter is 5.5, but hosts are 5.0 and 5.5

what's the recommended version to go and sequence (first vcenter and then ESXi hosts) ??

This is of highly mission critical and want to reduce downtime..

Need your suggestion please.

robbielozier · ‎07-10-2017

This will be a very basic upgrade solution:

Upgrade all hosts to 5.5 (latest patch)

Upgrade vCenter to 6.5 (latest patch)

Upgrade hosts from 5.5 to 6.5

The upgrade is fairly easy (depends on your current environment) if you are just doing a single PSC / vCenter deployment.