Specifications

E
ESX, upgrading 166
ESX upgrade, preparation 143
esxcli, upgrading hosts 200
esxcli installation or upgrade, dry run 210
esxcli reboot image 211
ESXi
downloading the installer 165
system requirements 13
upgrading 166
ESXi images, importing 172
ESXi installation script, about 184
ESXi ISO image, burning on a CD/DVD 154
ESXi upgrade, preparation 143
ESXi upgrade options 150
esxupdate 166
evaluation mode 214
F
FCoE,installing and booting ESXi from 165
files affected by upgrade 144
firewall 23, 26
firewall configuration, changes after
upgrade 147
FT 167
FTP 158
G
global data 135
gPXE 158
groups, requirements 135
H
HA 167
hardware requirements
ESXi 13
vCenter Server 17
vCenter Server Appliance 17
hardware requirements,ESXi 15
high availability
and vCenter Single Sign-On 35
vCenter Single Sign-On 86
host, maintenance mode 204
host acceptance level, display 211
host and update acceptance
levels,matching 202
host baseline group, creating 173
host profiles, assign with Auto Deploy 198
host settings 167
host upgrade 166
host upgrade options, about 150
host, update with a ZIP file of a depot 208
hosts
manually scanning 174
remediation against baseline groups 178
remediation against upgrade baseline 175
remediation failure response 169
reprovisioning with Auto Deploy 197
hosts firewall 23, 26
hosts, adding third party extensions 210
hosts, upgrading 143
I
IDE disks 13, 15
identity source, adding to vCenter Single Sign-
On 104
identity sources for vCenter Single Sign-On 39
IIS, conflict with vCenter Server over port 80 27
ILO 28
image profile
defined 201
display 211
image profiles, maintenance mode for installing
or updating 203
image profiles, upgrade or update host with 206
import, ESXi image 172
in-place upgrades 58
include command 185
install command 185
install vCenter Single Sign-On using Simple
Install 66
installation precheck script, errors 212
installation script
customized in ISO image 157
path to 184
supported locations 184
installing
VirtualCenter Server 135
VMware vSphere Web Client 74, 80, 89, 95,
100, 111, 128
installing ESXi, scripted 182
installing ESXi with software FCoE 165
installorupgrade command 185
Inventory Service,migrate from a Windows
Server 2003 host 113
Inventory Service, required information for
installation or upgrade 41
Inventory Service, install in a migration from
Windows Server 2003 host 114
Inventory Service, upgrade separately 75, 81,
90, 96, 101
Inventory Service, upgrade in vCenter Server
Simple Install 68
Inventory Service,enabling IPv6 support 134
IP addresses 154
IPv6 support, enabling for Inventory Service 134
ISO image, with custom installation script 157
vSphere Upgrade
222 VMware, Inc.