unable to upgrade esxi 5.1

[darkalien]

hi all,
i still have a ooold server running esxi vsphere 5.1.

now i wanted to add another vm to it with sata support wich is not supported before 5.5.

so i decided it was finaly time to upgrade.....

i tried to freshly install 6.7 but i got the notification that my intel cpu was not supported (i7 930)

well ok.... lower version then.   6.0 GA   couldnt find my network cards.. just a realtek onboard and i added a old card but no avail.

ok fine ill settle for 5.5..  unable to download, need to register for this. but i cant find anyway to register myself .

any thoughts anyone? mainly on how to get 5.5 eval registered?

[GaelV]

Hello,

To be sure of what you're doing when you want to upgrade, check if your material, devices are compliant with the ESXi version wanted on the below site :

VMware Compatibility Guide - System Search

If it's not supported (in your case you have a warning about your CPU) , it could have a lot of misfunction thereafter...

About licences, you can ask evaluation licence for a while then only buy it to a reseller. I don't think you can cumulate evaluations licences

[jburen]

You can assign a license to go from the evaluation mode to licensed mode.

Before trying to install a new ESXi version check the compalibility guide: VMware Compatibility Guide - System Search

[EricChigoz]

Hardware refresh?

[Kev_Johnson]

5.5 is End of General Support for almost a year now.

[a_p_]

Please see whether you can still register for the free Hypervisor at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi5​?

For the required Realtek drivers, see e.g. https://vibsdepot.v-front.de/wiki/index.php/List_of_currently_available_ESXi_packages. Note that some of the drivers may still work on ESXi 6.0.

André