Installation guide

Updated Information
This vSphere Upgrade Guide is updated with each release of the product or when necessary.
This table provides the update history of the vSphere Upgrade Guide.
Revision Description
EN-000112-04
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Included a new topic, “DNS Requirements for vSphere,” on page 35 in System Requirements section.
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Modified the component values of Virtual Processor in “Requirements for Creating Virtual
Machines,” on page 34 section
EN-000112-03 Added cautionary wording to Chapter 11, “Upgrade to ESX 4.0 or ESXi 4.0,” on page 73
indicating that upgrades from ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x fail to replicate customized partitions.
EN-000112-02 Revised text in topics “Upgrade ESX Hosts,” on page 73 and “Upgrade ESXi Hosts,” on page 75to say
that the Host Update Utility can be used to upgrade ESX and ESXi hosts from version 3.x to version 4.0,
rather than to version 4.x, as previously stated.
EN-000112-01
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Renamed and clarified descriptions for various vCenter Server components in the section “vCenter
Server Upgrade Summary,” on page 37.
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Added a reference regarding rollup jobs in relationship to detaching and attaching the vCenter Server
database to a different Microsoft SQL Server in the section “Detach and Attach a Microsoft SQL Server
Database,” on page 50.
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Added a sentence to indicate that vSphere Host Update Utility does not support authenticated proxies.
EN-000112-00 Initial release.
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