{"id":386,"date":"2016-09-09T07:12:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T07:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.16.10.10:8080\/?p=386"},"modified":"2023-03-30T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T08:42:50","slug":"updating-vcenter-is-always-a-pleasure-part-1-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Updating vCenter is always a pleasure &#8230; (Part 1 of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you also have some concerns before updating your vCenter? For sure we all have a Plan and a Plan B, Plan C &#8230;, &nbsp;but there is always someting you didn&#8217;t considered or expected.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to show you my Upgrade from 5.5 U3b to 6.0 U2.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before&nbsp;every Update we have to think about the consequences for other Apps, Users and compatibility. So I always recommend to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/Release_Notes\/en\/vsphere\/60\/vsphere-vcenter-server-60u2-release-notes.html\">vCenter Server 6.0 Update 2 Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s check some things before:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=2109760\">vSphere Update sequence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/partnerweb.vmware.com\/comp_guide2\/sim\/interop_matrix.php?#db\">vSphere Interoperability<\/a> (eg. your SQL Version)<\/li>\n<li>Confused about the SQL Versions? What is SQL 10.50.6000? Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.ch\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Your Backup solution?<\/li>\n<li>Nexus 1000v Support?<\/li>\n<li>other 3rd Party Apps? (eg. ITSM Tool)<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade your vCenter License to Version 6 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.vmware.com\/web\/vmware\/login\">myVMware <\/a>Portal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>If you are clear with the prerequisites, move on to cleanup your vCenter DB in <a href=\"https:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/\/?p=419\">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you also have some concerns before updating your vCenter? For sure we all have a Plan and a Plan B, Plan C &#8230;, &nbsp;but there is always someting you didn&#8217;t considered or expected. I would like to show you my Upgrade from 5.5 U3b to 6.0 U2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vcenter","category-vsphere"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vblog.hochsticher.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}