I was asked to take over managing the ESX servers at my place of work. We have two Dell R900's with 64gb of ram in each box. They are connected via fiber through a fiber channel swith to a EMC CX4-120. The ESX servers are running ESX 3.0.2. We also have a server that is running Vmware Infrastructure Client manager 2.5 that is connected to a SQL data base that is located on another server.
I would like to upgrade to ESXi 5.1. From what I have read I think I would have to first upgrade the Infratructure Client Manager to vCenter 4.0 first, then upgrade the two ESX server to 4.0. Afterwards I would update the clients and tools.
At that point should I be able to upgrade the vCenter server again to 5.1 ane then migrate the ESX servers to ESXi 5.1? I do have licensing for ESX 4.0 and I can upgrade the license to 5.1 from what I have read online.
Any help with this would be awesome. Thanks!
I would like to upgrade to ESXi 5.1. From what I have read I think I would have to first upgrade the Infratructure Client Manager to vCenter 4.0 first, then upgrade the two ESX server to 4.0. Afterwards I would update the clients and tools.
At that point should I be able to upgrade the vCenter server again to 5.1 ane then migrate the ESX servers to ESXi 5.1? I do have licensing for ESX 4.0 and I can upgrade the license to 5.1 from what I have read online.
Any help with this would be awesome. Thanks!