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Firstly have you checked your Dell server is on the HCL for ESXi 4.1?<br />
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl</a>
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Firstly have you checked your Dell server is on the HCL for ESXi 4.1?

http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl [http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl]

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The Upgrade Guide provided above is pretty intuitive. Should provide most of what you need. Is this a single host you're wanting to upgrade? Is the storage local or SAN/share-based? <br />
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~coolsport00
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The Upgrade Guide provided above is pretty intuitive. Should provide most of what you need. Is this a single host you're wanting to upgrade? Is the storage local or SAN/share-based?

~coolsport00

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I will check to make sure the hardware is compatible and I will reference that guide. &nbsp;This is a single host and the storage is all local.
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I will check to make sure the hardware is compatible and I will reference that guide.  This is a single host and the storage is all local.

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quite a straightforward upgrade. any issues let us know.<br />
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quite a straightforward upgrade. any issues let us know.



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I have a Dell Server running VMware ESXi 4.0, the free version, of the software. &nbsp;I would like to upgrade this to ESXi 4.1. &nbsp;I was wondering if there are any good resources that outline the steps for performing this upgrade? &nbsp;I am not much of a Linux command line person so I am looking for a pretty detailed step-by-step process if one exists.
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I have a Dell Server running VMware ESXi 4.0, the free version, of the software.  I would like to upgrade this to ESXi 4.1.  I was wondering if there are any good resources that outline the steps for performing this upgrade?  I am not much of a Linux command line person so I am looking for a pretty detailed step-by-step process if one exists.

Upgrade Steps for VMware ESXi 4.0 (Free Version)

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.