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VMware vSphere® 5.0 Upgrade
Best Practices
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Table of Contents
Introduction .................................................................. 
VMwarevSphere–What’sNew .............................................
vSphereFeaturesNoLongerSupportedinvSphere ...........................
ObtainingvSphereLicenses ................................................
LeveragingthevCenter-DayTrialLicense ....................................
UpgradingtoVMwarevCenterServer ........................................ 
PlanningtheUpgrade .........................................................
Requirements .................................................................
UpgradeProcess ..............................................................
BackingUpYourvCenterConfiguration .........................................
UpgradeScenarios ............................................................
HostAgents ................................................................
Upgradinga-BitvCenterOSwithaLocalDatabase .......................
BackupConfigurationUsingtheDataMigrationTool .........................
InstallingvCenterUsingDataProvidedbytheDataMigrationTool .............
Upgradinga-BitvCenterServerwithaRemoteDatabase .................
Upgradinga-BitvCenterServerwithaLocalDatabase
toaRemoteDatabase ....................................................... 
UpgradingtoVMwareESXi ................................................ 
ChoosinganUpgradePath ................................................... 
VerifyingHardwareCompatibility .......................................... 
VerifyingESXESXiHostVersion ........................................... 
Boot-DiskFree-SpaceRequirements ....................................... 
DiskPartitioningRequirements .............................................. 
LimitationsofanUpgradedESXiHost .................................. 
PreservingtheESXESXiHostConfiguration ...................................
Third-PartySoftwarePackages ................................................
VMwareESXiUpgradeBestPractices ..........................................
UsingvMotionStoragevMotion ............................................
PlacingESXHostsintoClustersandEnablingHADRS .......................
WatchingOutforLocalStorage .............................................
BackingUpYourHostConfigurationUpgrading ..............................
SummaryofUpgradeRequirementsandRecommendations .....................