Hello,
I have gone through VMware's most of the KB/Doc releated to Best practises for upgrading vCenter 5.0 to 5.1.
I have existing vCenter 5.0 server running with ESXi 5.0 and esxi 4.0 host/cluster. SQL DB resides on SQL cluster servers.
OS - WIndows Server 2008 R2 x64
want to upgrade vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 without loosing existing data, also we want to saperate Signle Sign On, Inventory service and vCenter services on each different host.
How this can be done?
as per VM docs we can do in place upgrade for 5.0 to 5.1.
How to move/migrate existing vCenter 5.0 service to another VM?
if we install vCenter 5.1 inventory service on another host and then start upgrade/install on existing vCenter server it gives error message like old inventory service is running on this system, it needs to be upgraded first in order to install/upgrade vCenter 5.1
so what would be the best way to upgrade existing vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 without loosing any data. alos we should have Single sing on, Invenotry service and vCenter service running on saperate host?
Already gone through below KB/upgrade doc, where I did not found answer to my question.
Thanks,
Haridas