smKKe wrote:
I have been reading several threads about upgrading ESX 4.1 to ESXi 4.1 Update 2. My question is this, I downloaded ESX 4.1 Update 2 and cannot update ESX 4.1 Update 1 to Update 2 (I guess that the upgrade is for ESX 4.0). Anyways, I would like instead to upgrade to ESXi 4.1 Update 2. I already installed the vCenter 4.1 Update 2 along with Update Manager. My question is this, for a single host with VMs on local storage, would my upgrade be this way:
- Shutdown host
- Reboot ESX server and start the ESXi 4.1 U2 install
- Select the hard drive that has the ESX installation and overwrite it (Keep the VM storage as it is).
- Finish the install and then delete the orphaned VMs and readd the VMs back to inventory?
- Possibly upgrade VMware tools? -- I only have 8 VMs running on my test host.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Hi generally higher version package are keep system healthy and depends upon the application your are runnng . before upgradding the higher package in production server we have to go through release document, if its testing server you can upgrade only one or two and check the effect , after that you can take your own decission should implement rest of server or not .And also fyi ESXi 5 already released.
Yours,
Satya