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kripa
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Sep 10, 2008 11:36 PM

How to upgrade the ESX 3.0.1 to 3.5 without down time?


I have installed the ESX 3.0.1 on HP DL 380. Now i want to upgrade the ESX 3.0.1 to 3.5 without down time. Is it possible?

Thanks an advance

Kripa

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Robin Iraca
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1. Sep 11, 2008 12:23 AM in response to: kripa
Re: How to upgrade the ESX 3.0.1 to 3.5 without down time?

Kripa,

That will only be possible if you have a ESX clustered environment with VMotion enabled.

Regards,

Robin

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Klaus Ziegler
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2. Sep 14, 2008 9:19 AM in response to: kripa
Re: How to upgrade the ESX 3.0.1 to 3.5 without down time?
Hello, as already mentioned above you will need a clustered enviroment with VMotion enabled to free up the ESX hosts to be upgraded.

To perform the upgrade I would recommend the following steps:
1) Udate your ESX hosts to the most current version of 3.0 (v3.0.3) to get VirtualCenter 2.5 support.
2) Update your VirtualCenter to v2.5
3) Upgrade your ESX host to 3.5 after each other.
... uprade without down time done!
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pkjayan
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3. Oct 15, 2008 12:44 PM in response to: Klaus Ziegler
Re: How to upgrade the ESX 3.0.1 to 3.5 without down time?

Dear Klaus Ziegler ,

Could you please send me the detailed step by step procedure to upgrade the ESX 3.0.1 to 3.5 without down time?

"Udate your ESX hosts to the most current version of 3.0 (v3.0.3) to get VirtualCenter 2.5 support" ??? can i upgrade the ESX 3.0.1 to ESX 3.5 update 2 directly? why to update to 3.0 (3.0.3)??


thanks in advance,

jay

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