I want to upgrade my ESX 3 blades to ESX 3.5. I just wanted to check to see if anyone experienced any issue in their upgrades.
My setup:
5 esx 3 host servers installed 2 years ago runnig no problems
2 new esx 3.5 host servers installed (cleant install) last year.
We dont use Vcenter so no Vmotion or Clustering
IBM SAN shared between all blades VMFS 3 filesystem.
I will do the upgrade option from disk on each esx 3.0 blade after shutting down all running VMs on that blade.
Is there anything else I may need to look out for? I just downloaded the Upgrade Guide but dont want to miss anything.
Thanks in advance
Rodney
Solaris 10 clients if you are going from 32 -> 64 bit
Solaris will automatically detect the new 64bit CPU and kill itself on startup.
Just change the type of Solaris in Summary | Settings | Options | Guest OS | Solaris
Since you don't have HA, you don't have to do anything to the cluster. After you power off the blade, I would probably consider detaching the fiber to the san....just to be extra cautious...