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If you have vCenter you can upload the ESXi 5 ISO to to your vCenter update Manager and use it for a straight upgrade.<br />
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If you do not have vCenter you can burn the ESXi 5 ISO and use a CD to upload. &nbsp;It will ask you if you want to keep the datastore and it will take it from there.
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If you have vCenter you can upload the ESXi 5 ISO to to your vCenter update Manager and use it for a straight upgrade.

If you do not have vCenter you can burn the ESXi 5 ISO and use a CD to upload.  It will ask you if you want to keep the datastore and it will take it from there.

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Can someone please provide me with a quick run-down in what<br />
I will need to do to upgrade a ESXi 4.1 infrastructure to ESXi 5?<br />
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Thanks in advance
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Can someone please provide me with a quick run-down in what
I will need to do to upgrade a ESXi 4.1 infrastructure to ESXi 5?

Thanks in advance

Upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to version 5

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.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.