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Command-Line Deployment and Upgrade of VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 1
vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 Upgrade Example
Use the following templates to upgrade a vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 with an external vCenter Single-Sign-On server
to a vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 1 with an external Platform Services Controller on the same ESXi host. The
template that is displayed in Example 22 upgrades a vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.x that contains a vCenter Single
Sign-On server to a vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 1 that contains a Platform Services Controller. The template
that is displayed in Example 23 upgrades a vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.x that contains a vCenter Server instance to a
vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 1.
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MPORTANT You must first upgrade the vCenter Single-Sign-On server to a Platform Services Controller, and then you
can upgrade the vCenter Server Appliance that is registered with this vCenter Single-Sign-On server.
Table 12 summarizes the values of the parameters used in the example templates.
Table 12. Parameters Used in the Upgrade Templates in Example 22 and Example 23
IP address of the ESXi host on which the vCenter
Single Sign-On server and the vCenter Server
Appliance are running
10.100.100.1
Root password of the ESXi host
P@ss!w0rd
IP address of the vCenter Single Sign-On server 10.100.100.10
IP address of the vCenter Server Appliance 10.100.100.11
vCenter Single Sign-On administrator password
SSOadm!n55
Root passwords of the Linux OS of the vCenter
Single Sign-On server and the vCenter Server
Appliance
Admin1!
vCenter Single Sign-On site name for the new
upgraded appliances
Site-One
IP addresses of the local DNS servers for the
temporary network by which the old appliance
migrates the data to the new appliance
10.100.100.7 and 10.100.100.8
IP address of the default gateway for the
temporary network by which the old appliance
migrates the data to the new appliance
10.100.100.253
Static IP address that is temporarily used for the
new appliances
10.100.100.112