

Upgrade ESXi 6.0 t0 6.5 Ref: VMware VMware Product Interoperability Ģ. If any case migration failed no worries exitng vCenter will be there to bring it up without any issue.ĮSXi Upgrade from 6.0 to 6.5 and then 7.0ġ.

Note: During migration new vCenter will be deploy and copy the data's from source VC to target VC and vCenter will be powered off during migration. Need 1 temperory IP for vCenter migration ( IP should be in same subnet as current vCenter) The migration/upgrade process will migrate data from all the components server with an active migration-assistant session.)ħ.

The migration-assistant should be run on the machines hosting these services separately, before initiating the vCenter Migration/Upgrade. The procedure to run the migration-assistant is the same whether you are trying to upgrade an external SSO, PSC,or Update Manager or an embedded version of these. Run migration assistance ( vCenter Migration Assistant. run the installer and choose migrate option for migration. If using VMware update manager on exteranl server then update it.Ħ. upgrade vCenter 6.5U1 to 6.5U3F ( need intermediate hops) Ref: vSphere Back-in-time release upgrade restriction Ĥ. First need to upgrade the intermeddiate hops from 6.0U1 to 6.U3.ģ. Ref: VMware VMware Product Interoperability Matrices ġ. Upgrade sequence of vCenter from 6.0U1b to 6.5.0 U3f Take snapshot of VMware update manager if using

Take Full back of vCenter VM vi backup tool if usingģ. First Take snapshot and Clone of vCenterĢ.
