Tag: Update

Upgrading an ESX host(i) 4.x a ESXi 5 manually

In this document we will look at one of the ways to update our ESXi 4.x hosts (we could also migrate from ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.0 and ESX(i) 3.5 to ESXi 5), it will be in a manual/interactive way by entering the ESXi cd/dvd/usb 5.0 on the ESX host itself(i) 4.x. This is one of the simplest ways for smaller environments, In future documents we will see other forms of updates. Prior to the upgrade we will have verified that our hosts support the new hypervisor using Agent Pre-upgrade check,

vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker

Antes de actualizar nuestra infraestructura VMware vSphere a la versión VMware vSphere 5 (nuestros hosts a ESXi 5.0) debemos ejecutar una utilidad que tenemos en el DVD de VMware vSphere 5, donde podremos comprobar sin paradas de servicio si nuestros host ESXi son compatibles para una posible actualización de versión (de VMware ESXi 4.x a VMware ESXi 5.0) gracias a vCenter Agent Pre-upgrade Check tool.

Upgrading from VMware ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 manually

If we intend to upgrade our VMware ESX hosts 4.0 or VMware ESXi 4.0 to the new version of vSphere 4.1 manually, This is, without using VMware Update Manager we can do it in a simple way. We will only have to download a couple of files, copy them to the host and apply them to update the computer, Previously we will have shut down all the virtual machines that the host runs or we have moved them to other computers and put the computer in maintenance mode.