Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of Albert Widjaja
Albert WidjajaFlag for Australia

asked on

Updating ESXi 5.1u1 into ESXi 5.1u2 or later prerequisites and caveats ?

People,

I'd like to perform the inline upgrade of ESXi Update 1 hosts in a DRS cluster into 5.1 Update 2c or later, so can anyone here please share some thoughts and comments in how to do the upgrade without losing the configured information on the current ESXi ?

Since I'm running HP Blades servers, I've downloaded the VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-Update2-2000251-HP-5.69.2-Nov2014.iso is that the correct one to perform inline upgrade of the ESXi hosts ?

Do I have to upgrade the VCenter first before upgrading the ESXi hosts ?
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
Flag of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland image

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
Avatar of Albert Widjaja

ASKER

ok, so in this case is this the correct file:
VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-Update2-2000251-HP-5.69.2-Nov2014-depot.zip

User generated image
Or do I need to download different file ?

How do I roll back the change in case there's something went wrong with the installation or causing some other problem like driver incompatibilities or firmware issue ?
SOLUTION
Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
Thanks !
ok,

Between these two files for the ESXi upgrade, which file is the correct one to be used for the inline upgrade on the HP Blade Servers:

HP Customized Image VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-Update2-2000251-HP-5.69.2-Nov2014-depot.zip file

ESXi 5.1 Update 2 Offline Bundle update-from-esxi5.1-5.1_update02.zip file