Hi All,
I have a customer on vSphere 5.0 Update 1. The tools have been updated to the latest version in 5.0 update 1, but 95% of the VMs are on hardware version 7. I would like to upgrade them to vSphere 5.1. I would like to confirm that you can upgrade to 5.1 first without having to upgrade the VM hardware to version 8 first? If so, I will upgrade the VMs to the latest hardware version after the 5.1 upgrade is complete. Thanks.