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bizzard2000
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‎09-01-2010 07:01 PM
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Would Upgrade ESX affect vm located in the local storage ?

Hi, guys

We just have a plan to upgrade our ESX host from 3.5 to 4.1 by updated manager. But question is that we have some vm located in local storage of host . I would like to know whether the upgrade would affect these vm .Or would you help provide some conference for it ? Thanks a lot!

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MentholMoose
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‎09-01-2010 08:28 PM
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The upgrade is not supposed to affect VMs in a local datastore. Just back them up if you are worried and want to be extra careful.

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Kirk Kosinski

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MentholMoose
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‎09-01-2010 08:28 PM
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The upgrade is not supposed to affect VMs in a local datastore. Just back them up if you are worried and want to be extra careful.

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Kirk Kosinski

VCP 4, MCITP: EA/VA/EDA7

----- {color:#555555}Kirk Kosinski{color} [!http://www.kirkkosinski.com/li.png!|http://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkkosinski] {color:#999999}MCITP: EA / VA / EDA7, VCP 4{color}
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‎09-10-2010 10:57 AM
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Upgrades using Update Manager should fail upfront (without touching the host) in cases where VMFS cannot be preserved. So, there should not be any worries here.