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Upgrading HP Blades ESXi steps ?

Hi Folks,

Before Upgrading the Blade Infrastructure, I wonder what should I do first ?

1. Is there any special steps to do before upgrading the Blade servers ?

2. Do I need to install the HP Offline Bundle for upgrading my ESXi 4.1 running on my current HP Blades BL 490 G7 ? hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-1.4.5-3.zip

I have used the HP customized ESXi 5.1u1 to upgrade HP DL 380 series servers but not too sure what should I do with the HP Blade servers ?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

1. Check the Server is on the HCL

2. If your Blades are HP, you should really try to use the HP OEM version of ESXi.

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Albert Widjaja

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Thanks CoolSport,

**THIS IS JUST PRECAUTIONARY - assuming your Hosts are using Shared Storage, I disconnect my Fibre cables to the Host

yes it is shared among with any others, so why do I need to go to the data center to disconnect it from the SAN Fabric ?

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Albert Widjaja

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thanks man, but the overwrite VMFS is when I selected the LUN from the SAN array, I have local datastore in the server, so I guess I can repartition this one instead safely ?

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