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13 On the Select appliance size page of the wizard, select the vCenter Server Appliance size for the
vSphere inventory size and click Next.
Option Description
Tiny (up to 10 hosts, 100 VMs)
Deploys an appliance with 2 CPUs and 8 GB of memory.
Small (up to 100 hosts, 1,000 VMs)
Deploys an appliance with 4 CPUs and 16 GB of memory.
Medium (up to 400 hosts, 4,000
VMs)
Deploys an appliance with 8 CPUs and 24 GB of memory.
Large (up to 1,000 hosts, 10,000
VMs)
Deploys an appliance with 16 CPUs and 32 GB of memory.
14 From the list of available datastores, select the location where all the virtual machine conguration les
and virtual disks will be stored and, optionally, enable thin provisioning by selecting Enable Thin Disk
Mode.
15 Select the temporary network for communication between the vCenter Server Appliance that you want
to upgrade and the newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance, select the vCenter Server Appliance IP
allocation method, and click Next.
The networks displayed in the Choose a temporary network drop-down menu depend on the ESXi
network seings. Non-ephemeral distributed virtual port groups are not supported and are not
displayed in the drop-down menu.
Option Description
DHCP
A DHCP server is used to allocate the IP address.
Static
You are prompted to enter the IP address and network seings.
a Enter a temporary IP address for the new vCenter Server Appliance.
b Enter the subnet mask.
c Enter the network gateway.
d Enter FQDNs or IP addresses of network DNS servers.
The names must be separated by commas.
16 Review the VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) page and choose if you want
to join the program.
For information about the CEIP, see the Conguring Customer Experience Improvement Program
section in vCenter Server and Host Management.
17 On the Ready to complete page, review the seings for the vCenter Server Appliance upgrade and click
Finish to complete the process.
18 (Optional) After the deployment completes, click the
vcenter_server_appliance_IP_address/vsphere-client link to start the vSphere Web Client and
log in to the vCenter Server instance in the vCenter Server Appliance.
19 Click Close to exit the wizard.
The vCenter Server Appliance is upgraded. The old vCenter Server Appliance is powered o and the new
appliance starts.
What to do next
If the old vCenter Server Appliance uses a non-ephemeral distributed virtual port group, to preserve the
port group seing, you can manually connect the new appliance to the original non-ephemeral distributed
virtual port group. For information about conguring virtual machine networking on a vSphere distributed
switch, see vSphere Networking.
vSphere Upgrade
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