Day: September 29, 2009

Update VMware Tools and Automatically Upgrade Virtual Machine Hardware with Update Manager

This would be the last step for a successful migration of our VMware vCenter virtual environment 2.5 a VMware vCenter Server 4.0, once we already have the VMware vCenter Server in the version 4.0, we have migrated the VMware Update Manager to VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0 and all our ESX hosts are already with ESX 4.0, we will be able to upgrade the VMware Tools to the virtual machines as well as then upgrade the virtual hardware version of the version 4 to the version 7.

Upgrade ESX 3.x to ESX 4.0 con VMware vCenter Update Manager

We continue in the process of migrating the VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment 3 to VMware vSphere 4. We first upgraded the VMware VirtualCenter server to VMware vCenter Server, later we will have migrated the VMware Update Manager component to VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0. After this, we will now be able to upgrade from ESX to the 4.0. All this, of course, taking into account whether our ESX hosts are fully compatible with the new version, to do this, check it in the VMware HCL.

Migrate VMware Converter Enterprise to VMware vCenter Converter 4

Like VMware vCenter Update Manager, if we were using VMware VirtualCenter in our environment 2.5 the VMware Converter Enterprise, we need to update it to the latest version in order to use it in our new VMware vCenter environment 4.0. If we update the, We may continue to retain existing configurations in the previous environment or logs… It will be a process that we can carry out at any time, once we already have our VMWare vCenter server in the 4.0, We can upgrade it when we need it, once we update the Update Manager or at the end of the migration process.

Migrate VMware Update Manager 1.0 a VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0

After migrating our VMware vCenter server from the 2.5 to the version 4.0 (HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=2700) we have to update the other components that we have installed, in this case we will update the VMware Update Manager environment 1.0 that we had in VMware Virtual Center 2.5 to the new environment for use with VMware vCenter 4.0 (vSphere), called VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0. This will be a process to be performed before proceeding with the migration of the environment 2.5 a 4.0, since after updating the Update Manager, we will update ESX hosts from version 3.x to the 4.0, and then the virtual machines (both the hardware version of the 4 to the 7 and VMware Tools to the latest version). All this in future documents.