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Most likely, you will need to logon with the local Administrator account to access vCenter, as the installation would have wiped the permissions, but once you are in visit the "Permissons" tab on vCenter and add the "Domain Admins" group of your domain to it Once you logon to the vCenter, go to Help > About and you'll see that we are actually running version 5.5 now, how cool! Once the installation has completed, open services.msc and verify that the VMware VirtualCenter Server and other services are startedĪfter a while, open the vSphere Client and choose to "Run the installer" to perform the client upgrade.
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Enter the SSO admin password (#) and accept the certificate if prompted.Record the ports numbers that will be used:
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Keep the vCenter agent upgrade as "Automatic"Ĭhoose the Local System Account instead of the Administrator one.
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We choose to do a Custom Installation, and the welcome splash window tell use exactly how to proceed: Step 2: Upgrade vCenter 5.0 to vCenter 5.5īefore upgrading the hosts, we must upgrade the vCenter server, to do that insert the iso DVD for the vCenter 5.5 installation on our vCenter and run it. Finally, go to Home > Update Manager and open the configuration tab, then click on "Test Connection" to ensure you can connect to the Internet okay and start downloading updates and patches If you have problems with other plug-ins (like the Hardware status, etc) ensure that you have installed the VMware vSphere Web Client on the vCenter, as it needs it to authenticate through the installed certificatesĥ. Ensure you got the option selected to download the updates after the installationĢ.- Ensure you type the name of the server (and not the domain) in front of the usernameģ.- Record the ports used by Update Manager:Ĥ.- After installation give a clean reboot to the vCenter, then to to Plub-ins > Manage Plug-in and "Download and install" the Update Manager plug in I created a couple of VMs, just for the sake of it, importing the good old Nostalgia )ġ.- Before proceeding, take a snapshot of all the VMs, that is to say the 2 hosts and the vCenter, then install VMware vSphere Update Manager on the vCenter. On my example I configured 2 hosts, a Nas storage running FreeNAS and 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machines, one acting as a Domain Controller and the other to host the vCenter database refer to the Table of IP addresses below for IPs allocations
Step 1: Prepare the environment for the upgradeĬreate a mirror of your production environment as close as possible using VMware Workstation to setup the needed VMs.
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I'm also skipping Windows 8, and will move from Windows 7 straight to Windows 10 when available. For example, at work I did not install Windows Vista, and we jumped from XP straight into Windows 7. On this guide we'll udpate our virtual infrastructure by performing an upgrade VMware vSphere 5.0 to VMware vSphere 5.5, creating a testing environment where you can do a dry run for this upgrade from the comfort of your chair and a cup of coffee at handįollowing my principle of "If it is working, don't fix it", I clean by-pass the version in between, 5.1, and I only install in-between-version if absolutely necessary. Upgrade VMware vSphere 5.0 to VMware vSphere 5.5