Very helpful -- I am getting ready to upgrade my Vcenter 6.5 u3 to 7.0u1.. I found your tips very helpful specifically -- the entire migration of an existing Vcenter Appliance and all of the steps... Very helpful... Thank you.
So, I got to phase 2, where the pre-check threw an error because we still have to ESXI 6.0 hosts in play, and it requires no less than 6.5 What do I do with the appliance it created in step 1? Hang onto it and rerun the wizard at a later date, assuming it'll pick up where it left off? Or just delete it and start fresh?
Massively helpful! I'm studying for a VCP and have been wrestling with this all afternoon. Thanks for putting this together. Quick question - I am running my vsphere environment in workstation - so @ 3:45 -noob questions - I don't have my vcenter server appliance as a vm managed within vsphere - it lives on a vm in workstation - I've tried entering the IP of either of my ESXI hosts and the root and/or administrator@vcenter.local creds - neither work....!
I'd guess you have your VCSA VM set to NAT networking instead of preferred Bridged mode, but that's a long-shot guess, I'm not really sure. Glad the video was helpful!
It should converge it, I saw something on his screen talking about. When I upgraded our production environment from 6.5 to 6.7 it was a similar process that converged the external PSC. into one vcenter server.
Hey Thanks for the video, one question... I thought the process change the name of the vm to the original name, in your case it is using the temporal name. Is that correct?
Very good video. It´s possible upgrade and migrate form vcenter windows to vcsa, shutting old Vcenter windows and with the same ip old vcenter windows to VCSA ?. Thank you very much
Thank you for the kind words. It should work, but this video doesn't focus on that more lengthy scenario which requires advanced planning. Gladly, there is guidance from VMware here: docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vcenter.upgrade.doc/GUID-28B58AC7-7C35-4FC3-ABD6-1CAD06C032BA.html
Hey Paul. We're currently using vSphere 6.7 and VMware Horizon to connect to a bunch of VDI's. But we've had a long issue with both the performance and quality when using Horizon. Do you think updating vSphere from 6.7 to 7.0 could help with these issues? :-)
You said at 3:10 that you are doing this on your lunch break on a lab, and in a production world it's completely different. Does this mean in a working environment should this be done out of hours?
Good catch, wow you really paid attention. Well, it's probably best to upgrade VCSA when sysadmins aren't busy trying to use it anyway, so that would tend to be after hours. But of course, many enterprises have to do it during business hours anyway, putting the activity into change control so folks know why they can't log in during the somewhat disruptive cut-over. It's not a traditional upgrade, it's really more of an orchestrated shutdown the old VCSA VM, copy it's data and IP into a new VM and if it works, leave the new one running. Having VCSA down could have an impact on HA and DRS etc, see also release notes: docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-70-release-notes.html so reducing the risk by doing it after hours in production generally would be best.
Very good video and the information even better.!!
Thank you for watching!
Very helpful -- I am getting ready to upgrade my Vcenter 6.5 u3 to 7.0u1.. I found your tips very helpful specifically -- the entire migration of an existing Vcenter Appliance and all of the steps... Very helpful... Thank you.
Very well done! Glad to have folks like you in the community! :) Very simple instructions with perfect pauses and explanations.
So, I got to phase 2, where the pre-check threw an error because we still have to ESXI 6.0 hosts in play, and it requires no less than 6.5 What do I do with the appliance it created in step 1? Hang onto it and rerun the wizard at a later date, assuming it'll pick up where it left off? Or just delete it and start fresh?
Massively helpful! I'm studying for a VCP and have been wrestling with this all afternoon. Thanks for putting this together. Quick question - I am running my vsphere environment in workstation - so @ 3:45 -noob questions - I don't have my vcenter server appliance as a vm managed within vsphere - it lives on a vm in workstation - I've tried entering the IP of either of my ESXI hosts and the root and/or administrator@vcenter.local creds - neither work....!
I'd guess you have your VCSA VM set to NAT networking instead of preferred Bridged mode, but that's a long-shot guess, I'm not really sure. Glad the video was helpful!
How to upgrade vCenter with external PSC, do we have to upgrade the PSC first? Then Vcenter?
It should converge it, I saw something on his screen talking about. When I upgraded our production environment from 6.5 to 6.7 it was a similar process that converged the external PSC. into one vcenter server.
So in a production environment, what additional precautions would you take?
Always backup first, even better if you can test that the backup is good!
Hey Thanks for the video, one question... I thought the process change the name of the vm to the original name, in your case it is using the temporal name. Is that correct?
so its still ok to install vCenter to windows platform?
Very good video. It´s possible upgrade and migrate form vcenter windows to vcsa, shutting old Vcenter windows and with the same ip old vcenter windows to VCSA ?. Thank you very much
Thank you for the kind words. It should work, but this video doesn't focus on that more lengthy scenario which requires advanced planning. Gladly, there is guidance from VMware here: docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vcenter.upgrade.doc/GUID-28B58AC7-7C35-4FC3-ABD6-1CAD06C032BA.html
Thank you
Hey Paul.
We're currently using vSphere 6.7 and VMware Horizon to connect to a bunch of VDI's. But we've had a long issue with both the performance and quality when using Horizon. Do you think updating vSphere from 6.7 to 7.0 could help with these issues? :-)
I'm sorry, I don't have experience with Horizon to be able to make an educated guess on that one, I just don't know.
You said at 3:10 that you are doing this on your lunch break on a lab, and in a production world it's completely different. Does this mean in a working environment should this be done out of hours?
Good catch, wow you really paid attention. Well, it's probably best to upgrade VCSA when sysadmins aren't busy trying to use it anyway, so that would tend to be after hours. But of course, many enterprises have to do it during business hours anyway, putting the activity into change control so folks know why they can't log in during the somewhat disruptive cut-over. It's not a traditional upgrade, it's really more of an orchestrated shutdown the old VCSA VM, copy it's data and IP into a new VM and if it works, leave the new one running. Having VCSA down could have an impact on HA and DRS etc, see also release notes:
docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-70-release-notes.html
so reducing the risk by doing it after hours in production generally would be best.
Thanks a lot.!
can you go from 6.5 straight to 7.0 without issue?
While that appears to be true
kb.vmware.com/s/article/78205
it's not something I've tested personally.