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Table Of Contents
- View Upgrades
- Contents
- View Upgrades
- View Component Compatibility Matrix
- View Upgrade Overview
- System Requirements for Upgrades
- Preparing for a View Upgrade
- Upgrading View Server Components
- Upgrade ESXi Hosts and Their Virtual Machines
- Upgrading Remote Desktops and Horizon Client
- Upgrade RDS Hosts That Provide Session-Based Desktops
- Upgrade View Agent
- Upgrade View Composer Desktop Pools
- Tasks for Upgrading Desktop Pools to Use Space Reclamation
- Tasks for Upgrading Desktop Pools to Use a Virtual SAN Datastore
- Upgrade the Client Application
- Configure the VMware Horizon Web Portal Page for End Users
- Applying View Patches
- Upgrading vSphere Components Separately in a View Environment
- Index
Upgrade ESXi Hosts and Their Virtual
Machines 6
Upgrading ESXi hosts and virtual machines is the most time-consuming aspect of this middle phase of a
View upgrade.
This procedure provides an overview of the tasks you must perform during the second and subsequent
maintenance windows. To complete some of these tasks, you might need step-by-step instructions found in
the VMware vSphere Upgrade Guide and the View Administrattion document.
For details about which versions of View are compatible with which versions of vCenter Server and ESXi,
see the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix at
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php.
IMPORTANT To use the space-efficient disk format feature for linked-clone pools, you must upgrade
vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and the VMware Tools software in the virtual machines to
VMware vSphere 5.1 or later.
To use the VMware
®
Virtual SAN™ feature, you must upgrade to vSphere 5.5 Update 1 or later.
Prerequisites
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Complete the procedure described in “Upgrade View Connection Servers in a Replicated Group,” on
page 36.
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Perform the ESXi upgrade preparation tasks listed in the VMware vSphere Upgrade Guide.
Procedure
1 Upgrade ESXi hosts, cluster by cluster.
For instructions, see the VMware vSphere Upgrade Guide. If you have many clusters, this step could take
several maintenance windows to complete. Upgrading ESXi hosts might include the following tasks:
a Use VMware vSphere
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vMotion
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to move the virtual machines off of the ESXi host.
b Put the host into maintenance mode.
c Perform the upgrade.
d Use VMotion to move the virtual machines back onto the host.
e Perform post-upgrade tasks for ESXi hosts.
Every host must be a member of a cluster, as mentioned in the prerequisites.
2 If an upgraded host does not reconnect itself to vCenter Server, use vSphere Client to reconnect the host
to vCenter Server.
3 If you use View Composer, after all ESXi hosts are upgraded, on the vCenter Server host, restart the
View Composer service.
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