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Upgrade Horizon view 5.2 to 7

We would like to upgrade our View 5.2 environment to Horizon view 7. Since the direct upgrade is not possible from 5.2 to 7, we would like to upgrade it to 6.1 first and then to 7. Can anyone had done this scenario earlier, if yes please share your thoughts.

Also vcenter server version is 5.5. do we need to upgrade this?

Esxi Server versions are 5.5? Do we need to upgrade this for view 7?

Appreciate your help on this

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Anu

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pchapman
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The best course of action would be to build new and move your parent VM's over to the new environment.

There are a lot of considerations.

First thing to do is to check the various compatibility matrices to ensure the supporting components (hardware, operating systems, sql server versions) are supported..  You may want (or need) to migrate to Server 2016, SQL 2014, for example.

If you are on vCenter 5.5 you're probably on the Windows version, if you upgrade to 6.5 you'll want to go with the appliance.. etc.

If you are on a View 5.x environment there is a good possibility that the latest vSphere does not support your hardware.  If you aYou may also need to upgrade zero clients, for example if you are on Tera1, they are no longer supported.

Most customers I work with on a View 5.x environment need to buy new hardware, so we just build a new vSphere/View environment on that new platform and migrate things over.

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pchapman
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The best course of action would be to build new and move your parent VM's over to the new environment.

There are a lot of considerations.

First thing to do is to check the various compatibility matrices to ensure the supporting components (hardware, operating systems, sql server versions) are supported..  You may want (or need) to migrate to Server 2016, SQL 2014, for example.

If you are on vCenter 5.5 you're probably on the Windows version, if you upgrade to 6.5 you'll want to go with the appliance.. etc.

If you are on a View 5.x environment there is a good possibility that the latest vSphere does not support your hardware.  If you aYou may also need to upgrade zero clients, for example if you are on Tera1, they are no longer supported.

Most customers I work with on a View 5.x environment need to buy new hardware, so we just build a new vSphere/View environment on that new platform and migrate things over.

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Thanks for your reply.

Ok. if we are going to build a new view environment using current hardwares

can we able to install Horizon 7 environment without removing the current 5.2 environment by adding the same vcenter? is it possible?

what about the license keys..can we able to upgrade my 5.2 license key to 7?

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