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The upgrade that I am going to demonstrate will be the GUI upgrade of my VCSA based vCenter Server.

Upgrade/Migration to vCenter 7.0 complete!.

Complete post-upgrade tasks verify functionality and execute a backup.

Migrate Windows-based vCenter Server to VCSA.

Prepare upgrade environment (or migration).ī.

Confirm the upgrade requirements have been met.

Assuming backup and restore testing is complete you can proceed with the following. There are two options available to get your vCenter Server to version 7.0 upgrade in place or migrate your existing vCenter Server 6.5 (or 6.7). Overview of vCenter Server Upgrade Procedure

Upgrade virtual machines (VM Tools & HW).

There are certainly sub-tasks for each that you should review/prep before ripping through these steps. If we are to only focus on upgrading the core components of vSphere (vCenter, ESXi and VMs) the process would look like this at a high-level. VMware Product Interoperability Matrices – Upgrade Path for ESXi Hypervisor VMware Product Interoperability Matrices – Upgrade Path for vCenter You will have to upgrade to NSX-T 3.0 prior to upgrading your core vSphere components. The matrix for these solutions will quickly show you cannot upgrade and maintain interoperability. In this situation you would need to upgrade vRA before upgrading your core vSphere components.Īnother example, let’s say you have NSX-T 2.4.x or 2.5.x in your environment and are interested in upgrading from 6.5 U2 to vSphere 7.0. Let’s take this same scenario and say you are running vRA 7.2 to 7.5. If you analyze this matrix you will see vRA 7.6 will interoperate with both vSphere 6.7 and 7.0 and therefore will not require you to perform an upgrade of vRA. For example, let’s say you are using vRealize Automation (vRA) 7.6 and you are currently running vSphere 6.7 U3 and want to upgrade to vSphere 7.0. There is a chance you might not have to upgrade depending on the version of that particular solution. Interoperability Matrices are also very important.

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Update Sequence for vSphere 6.7 and compatible VMware Products (53710) Interoperability Matrices Update Sequence for vSphere 6.5 and compatible VMware Products (2147289) Update Sequence for vSphere 6.0 and compatible VMware Products (2109760) Skipping over this step in planning could be catastrophic to your environment so please do not overlook this information. If you are using additional VMware solutions such as vSAN, NSX or anything from vRealize Suite (vRA, vROps, etc.) then you must review this information. The information provided in these KB articles is extremely useful and highly critical for VMware customers out there that use multiple VMware solutions. Review the sequence for the specific version you plan on upgrading from. This blog article is specific for 6.5 to 7.0 but VMware has multiple Update Sequence KB articles publicly available for each version of vSphere 6.x.

Review the upgrade sequence for your environment (VMware KB Articles).

If you cannot restore from backup then that backup is not very useful. Remember, your backup is only as good as your restoration. Aside from having that all important backup, I would also execute a restore operation as a test.

Verify your environment is backed up and ready to go.

Great point in time here to create your run-book if you have not already.

Review the documentation associated with upgrading.

Verify the upgrade path for the solution(s) you plan on upgrading.

Upgrading your environment will likely involve the following. Always review the documentation (multiple iterations) prior executing any tasks. Great way to remain organized and review everything thoroughly before proceeding with your upgrade. It is a very good practice and habit to get into.

Regardless of which version you are currently running, I highly recommend creating an upgrade run-book (spreadsheet) to track the tasks associated with your upgrade.

vSphere ESXi 6.5 U3 – Build 13932383 (single 3-node HA/DRS cluster).

As you can see, very basic lab setup that I am going with with and upgrade both my vCenter Server and ESXi hosts basically a ‘naked vSphere’ deployment.

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I felt the need to start here to help provide some guidelines for those still using 6.5.Īs I do in my previous step-by-step articles I provide a brief summary of the software versions that I am starting with in my lab environment. There are going to be a lot of great articles out there for upgrading 6.7 to 7.0 so keep an eye out for those. This blog article is intended for that specific audience. There are some organizations out there that didn’t make the jump to vSphere 6.7 and are running vSphere 6.5.

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