Jalson International Inc.
  • Home
  • Services
    • Managed Services
    • Consulting and Professional Services
  • Contact
  • Blog

Notes to self and to help others along the way...

Upgrading vSphere ESXi from 5.0 to 5.5

7/25/2018

1 Comment

 
Upgrade for VMWare vSphere ESXi from any 5.0 to 5.5 is pretty straight forward. However when going from 5.5 to 6.x, there are some added components like PSC (Platform Services Controller) See here.

There are various methods, however I will outline the steps by mounting a virtual DVD ISO (I used Cisco UCS Server - so my Virtual KVM was CIMC).

To mount the ISO and restarting the server and booting through the DVD, follow my other blog post (You would mount a different DVD image which would have the upgrade vSphere ISO).

Note: Check VMWare Compatibility to check if you can go from a specific source to a destination.

Here are the steps:

Once the DVD starts booting, the following screen would appear:

Picture
.....

Picture
Press Enter when its fully loaded.
Picture
Click the partition where the ESXi resides (normally its the smaller partition - the bigger partition has the virtual machines)

Note: Be careful in this step
Picture
Select what you intend on doing. I selected the Upgrade with preserving VMFS (which is the default)
Picture
Confirm
Picture
...
Picture
Once complete, the server would go through a power cycle. 
Picture
Once the server power cycles, it would go to the VMWare yellow screen. Turn on the VMs (using vSphere).

Note: vSphere on your local desktop will have to go through an upgrade once the ESXi is upgraded.
1 Comment
essay writing service reviews link
7/25/2019 11:34:12 am

Do you ever look at yourself in the mirror and for once honestly ask yourself if you really think you are beautiful? I remember asking myself the same question twenty or thirty years ago. I used to be very beautiful but nobody tell me I am beautiful. Today I honestly think I am ugly yet everyone keep telling me I am beautiful. I wonder what happened to their eyes. I don't know why everyone is wrong all of a sudden. They seem wrong in a pleasant way.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Saad is a Senior Collaboration Engineer. He is CCIE x 3 (Collaboration, R&S and Data Center)
    ​

    Picture

    Categories

    All
    Cisco
    Collaboration
    IOS
    Microsoft
    Pakistan
    Politics
    Virtualization
    Webex

    Archives

    April 2022
    March 2022
    June 2020
    July 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Services
    • Managed Services
    • Consulting and Professional Services
  • Contact
  • Blog