Managing esx3 with Vsphere

[Uch]

We have an existing vmware cluster that is managed by vcentre 2.5, we need to add a new cluster which will be vsphere, we were wondering if we can manage the existing environment from the new VSPHERE managenent console, is it backwards compatible ? or do we need seperate management consoles for the different flavours ?

[zanmk · Accepted solution]

Hi!

You can manage VI3 with vCenter 4, you can also mix ESX3 and ESX4 in one infrastructure. We've upgraded vCenter from 2.5 to 4 with success. It allowed us to keep our statistics and configuration and so far we got no significant issues.

regards

Martin

[hhmz]

What happened with user permissions?

bye

[zanmk]

Everything was at place just like before the upgrade. One and only problem we faced was upgrade of VIC. There is a possibility to upgrade VIC after connecting to new vCenter but one or two workstations couldn't perform it. We had to uninstall VIC, reinstall NET and finally vSphere client installed smoothly )

regards

Martin

[hhmz]

TNX

regards