Hello Everyone,
I have a bit of an interesting situation I want to run past everyone. In one of my datacenters, I am going to be doing three things:
The goal is to: add a locally installed vCenter Server, add more resources (all VM's cannot run on one host at this time) and upgrade the environment to vSphere 6.0.
There are a lot of moving parts on this project, what are your thoughts on this process:
Does that "6 step plan" sound like a reasonable plan? I can't foresee any reason that it would not work the way I want.
Thanks in advance,
Sean
I assume your hardware is supported by ESXi 6.0.
In this case the plan is basically ok, although I'd install ESXi 6.0 on the new host in step 3. I don't see a reason why you would want to install ESXi 5.1 on the new host, and then upgrade it.
André
I assume your hardware is supported by ESXi 6.0.
In this case the plan is basically ok, although I'd install ESXi 6.0 on the new host in step 3. I don't see a reason why you would want to install ESXi 5.1 on the new host, and then upgrade it.
André
I concur with Andre, there should be a need to install esxi 5.1 on the new host.
You can perform an orchestrated upgrade of hosts from 5.1 to 6.0 using update manager.
Check out Perform an Orchestrated Upgrade of Hosts Using vSphere Update Manager
Chris
Gentlemen,
Thank you for your advice. The piece I was unsure about was whether or not I could run ESXi 6.0 on one host and then safely attach the datastores to the ESXi 6.0 Host which is shared with the ESXi 5.1 hosts. Though, I don't know why I was unsure about this given the fact that after I upgrade one of my hosts, I will then be running a mixed environment.
I will take your advice, keep ESXi 6.0 on the new hardware, move the 5.1 hosts to the new vCenter and then upgrade the 5.1 hosts to 6.0.
Many thanks for your advice!!!
Sean