vSphere Upgrades – vCenter and ESXi
by on May.27, 2009, under Virtualization
We upgraded our vCenter server on Tuesday AM and all is well so far. Our production ESX servers are still on 3.5 Update 4 and vCenter is managing them fine. We have tested the storage vmotion and converting vmdks from thick to thin – so far so good. The management interface is a little different but I like it. The new inventory views of Networking and Datastores are very handy.
We upgraded our test ESXi server this AM to ESXi 4.0 using the vSphere Host Update Utility. The upgrade went very well. The only real problem we ran into was with an older NIC that was not supported. No problems other than that.
Our test ESX server is a HP DL380 G4 with 2 3.6GHz Xeon CPUs (Single Core) and 4 GB RAM. This is managed as a stand alone server, it is not managed by vCenter.
If all goes well we will probably upgrade production ESX host this Sunday night.
Hope to have at least an overview of what I did at EMC World posted in the next day or so, just too busy right now.
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June 11th, 2009 on 7:16 am
Hi, you mentioned “Our test ESX server is a HP DL380 G4 with 2 3.6GHz Xeon CPUs (Single Core) and 4 GB RAM.” Did you mean test -ESXi- server? I have a DL380 G4 running ESXi 3.5, and wanted to find out if 4.0 ran okay on the older G4 (not on the HCL). Thanks!
June 11th, 2009 on 7:38 am
Yes, I meant ESXi, sorry about that. The upgrade from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4 went without issue.
Everything seems to be running fine. This is our test environment, our production servers are on VMWare’s HCL.
Thanks
Hersey
June 11th, 2009 on 9:15 am
Great! Thanks for the information.