Installation guide

PXE, configuration files 89
PXE boot ESXi installer using PXELINUX, setup
procedure 90, 91, 93
PXE booted ESXi hosts, enable remediation 99
PXELINUX
boot ESXi installer using 90, 93
boot ESXi installler using 91
R
reboot image 136
remediation
of hosts 103, 105
of virtual appliances 149
of virtual machines 149
remote management applications 94
Repair-DeployRulesetCompliance cmdlet 126
requirements for vSphere Client 21
requirements for vSphere Web Client 21
resource pool settings affected by upgrade 77
restoring, vCenter Server configuration 50, 51,
53
restoring VirtualCenter 2.x 63
ROM image 87
rootpw command 112
RSA 25
rule set compliance 126
S
SAS disks 13, 15
SATA disks 13, 15
scanning
hosts 102
virtual appliance 148
virtual machine 148
scenarios 27, 163
script, for installing ESXi 111
scripted installation, differences from ESXi
4.x 118
scripted upgrade of ESXi, by PXE Booting 122
scripted upgrade of ESXi, from a USB flash
drive 121
scripted upgrade of ESXi,from a CD or DVD 120
SCSI 13, 15
Service Console, removed in ESXi 5.0 11
Service Console port group 78
services, VMware Tools 141, 142
settings affected by upgrade 74
software depot, defined 127
Solaris guest operating system, VMware Tools
installation or upgrade (tar
installer) 154
specifications
ESXi hardware requirements 13, 15
performance recommendations 13, 15
SQL compatibility mode 39
SQL Server, changing the computer name 35
SQL Server Express database, back up 49
SSH configuration, affected by upgrade 77
SSL certificates 57, 167
static IP addresses 83
supported database formats 26
system requirements, vCenter Server
database 33
T
tar installer 152
TCP/IP 30
Test-DeployRuleSetCompliance cmdlet 126
TFTP 87
tftp-hpa 87
tftpd32 87
Tomcat service, vCenter Server upgrade
failure 57
U
uninstalling VMware Tools 160
Update Manager
hardware requirements 25
supported Operating Systems 26
upgrading 69
updated information 7
upgrade
in place 163
migration 165, 166
process 9, 163
virtual machines 145
VMware Tools 141, 142
upgrade command 112
upgrade hosts 103
upgrade hosts interactively 107
upgrade on new hardware, vCenter Server 34
upgrade precheck script, errors 137
upgrade scenario without host clusters 164
upgrade scenarios 27, 163
upgrade support for ESXi 5.0 82
upgrade virtual hardware 158
upgrade VMware Tools, automatic 156
upgrades, best practices 73
upgrading
datastore permissions 64
network permissions 64
stage 1 27, 38
stage 4 142
vSphere Upgrade
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