Now that we have upgraded our vCenter Server, we can proceed to upgrade our ESXi hosts. First, let’s look at various options available for upgrade ESXi hosts. There are several different ways to upgrade an ESXi hosts as listed below, Upgrade ESXi host using installation media (DCUI, CLI or Script) Upgrade ESXi host using vSphere Update Manager Upgrade ESXi host using Auto deploy From those methods we will discuss about upgrading ESXi hosts using vSphere Update Manager and using installation media (DCUI). Before upgrade process begins you should verify the system meets the upgrade requirements. You can refer reference links to verify upgrade requirements. Then we need to prepare the…
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Upgrade vSphere Environment Part 1 – Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance to v6.7
Currently, we have deployed a vSphere environment with one vCenter Server appliance v6.5 with external PSC and 3 ESXi 6.5 hosts. VMware has released the latest upgrade for vSphere platform on April 2018. So let’s upgrade our environment to the version 6.7 as well. In this post we will discuss about the method of upgrading vCenter server and we will upgrade ESXi hosts later in a separate post. You should always upgrade vCenter server before upgrading ESXi hosts as vCenter cannot manage hosts which are higher in version. Major version upgrades to vCenter appliance can be consider as a migration as well. Since we have to deploy new VCSA and…
