Nick Rhode
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VMware Upgrade
I know a decent amount about VMware but just looking for a little bit of advice on the upgrade. Currently the environment has 1 host with 3 Virtuals. ESXi is currently 4.1.1 and they would like to upgrade to 5.5. From what I see I believe they installed ESXi on the raid instead of the typical flash drive. One question I have is, can I just remove VCenter and ESXi, slot a flash drive and install 5.5, attach the datastore and inventory the VMs?
Any recommendations are appreciated.
Any recommendations are appreciated.
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There is no uninstall, and you would need to be very careful if you used third party Partition editors, not to corrupt or mis-configure the existing VMFS partition.
So I would leave in place, it only takes up approx 1GB, and I would install a new virgin flash drive/sd card.
So I would leave in place, it only takes up approx 1GB, and I would install a new virgin flash drive/sd card.
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That's pretty much what I figured. I mean after all these are local storage and eventually a SAN will be in place so it wont matter anyways.
Thanks Andrew, knew I could count on you for info.
Thanks Andrew, knew I could count on you for info.
no problems
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