Good Afternoon,
I have been put in charge of a little project and was getting a little overwhelmed and wanted to see if my thinking is in order.
We have 2 hosts running exi3.5 and a vm with vcenter 4.1 to administer them. We purchased two new servers and would like to migrate the vms from the old to the new and upgrade to exsi5.x and vcenter 5.x in the process. The current vcenter does NOT have upgrade manager loaded. So this is my thoughts
1) Download/enable update manager (where? I couldnt find)
2) upgrade exsisting hosts to 4.0 and then 5.0 (you cannot go directly correct?)
3) upgrade vcenter to 5.0
4) bring up new servers with exsi5.x
5) add new hosts to vcenter
6) migrate vm's to new hosts
7) toss out the old and drink a beer.
Am i missing something? Is this the correct thinking on this?
Thanks for the information.
-Dave