Vcenter Upgrade Questions?

[kristopherjturn]

I know there probably is a discussion on this subject so sorry for asking again.

We would like to upgrade our current VICenter box to vcenter 4 without upgrading our ESX Host from 3.5 to 4 until a later date. Can vCenter manage 3.5 host? Is there anything we need to know about in advance if we go this route?

Thanks,

Kris

[bulletprooffool · Accepted solution]

Nope,

Just follow the doc

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_upgrade_guide.pdf

Upgrading the VC is best practice

[kristopherjturn]

Thanks. How was your upgrade experience? We are at a point we would like to do a server here a server there.

[jbruelasdgo]

smooth...

is not that difficult. Anyway, you can manage ESX 3.x with vCenter 4, just remember to maintain somewhere your license server(VI3 was licensed by using a license server, and that has changed with the new versions of vCenter4 and ESX 4)

regards

Jose B Ruelas