Comments on: My experiences upgrading ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/my-experiences-upgrading-esx-35-to-vsphere-40/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:34:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mrdenny http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/my-experiences-upgrading-esx-35-to-vsphere-40/#comment-341 mrdenny Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:46:20 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/my-experiences-upgrading-esx-35-to-vsphere-40/#comment-341 I didn't have any issues when doing my upgrades. The only outages to the guest OSs were the upgrades of the VMware Tools which required the guest to reboot. Then powering off the guest and upgrading the virtual hardware version from 4 to 7. After the VM powered up this required another reboot of the guest. Total downtime per guest OS would be less than 5 minutes (dependind on how long it takes to reboot each guest). I didn’t have any issues when doing my upgrades. The only outages to the guest OSs were the upgrades of the VMware Tools which required the guest to reboot. Then powering off the guest and upgrading the virtual hardware version from 4 to 7. After the VM powered up this required another reboot of the guest. Total downtime per guest OS would be less than 5 minutes (dependind on how long it takes to reboot each guest).

]]> By: Jonelo http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/my-experiences-upgrading-esx-35-to-vsphere-40/#comment-338 Jonelo Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:17:48 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/my-experiences-upgrading-esx-35-to-vsphere-40/#comment-338 Hi Denny, Did you encounter any interruptions/issues to your production VMs (Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, XP, & Red Hat) during & or after the upgrade? Thanks Hi Denny,

Did you encounter any interruptions/issues to your production VMs (Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, XP, & Red Hat) during & or after the upgrade?

Thanks

]]> By: mrdenny http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/my-experiences-upgrading-esx-35-to-vsphere-40/#comment-324 mrdenny Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:32 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/my-experiences-upgrading-esx-35-to-vsphere-40/#comment-324 Yes. Here's a link to [A href="http://modmaven.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/vsphere-upgrade-part-1-step-by-step/"]part 1[/A] and [A href="http://modmaven.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/vsphere-upgrade-part-2-step-by-step/"]part 2[/A] of a blog post I found. Here's the link to the [A href="http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_upgrade_guide.pdf"]official upgrade gude [/A]as well (pdf). Yes. Here’s a link to part 1 and part 2 of a blog post I found. Here’s the link to the official upgrade gude as well (pdf).

]]> By: Ubersol http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/my-experiences-upgrading-esx-35-to-vsphere-40/#comment-323 Ubersol Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:27:12 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/my-experiences-upgrading-esx-35-to-vsphere-40/#comment-323 Hi, Is there any documentation you followed during the upgrade process? Hi,
Is there any documentation you followed during the upgrade process?

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