Installation guide

About Virtual Machines and Host Upgrades 143
Virtual Machine Hardware Versions 144
Perform an Orchestrated Upgrade of Virtual Machines with vSphere Update Manager 145
Planning Downtime for Virtual Machines 150
Downtime for Upgrading Virtual Machines 150
Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Windows Virtual Machine 151
Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Linux Virtual Machine 152
Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Solaris Virtual Machine 154
Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a NetWare Virtual Machine 155
Operating System Specific Packages for Linux Guest Operating Systems 156
Perform an Automatic Upgrade of VMware Tools 156
Upgrade VMware Tools on Multiple Virtual Machines 157
Configure a Virtual Machine to Upgrade VMware Tools Automatically 158
Upgrade Virtual Hardware 158
Upgrade Virtual Hardware on Multiple Virtual Machines 160
Uninstall VMware Tools 160
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Example Upgrade Scenarios 163
Upgrading Environments with Host Clusters 163
Upgrading Environments Without Host Clusters 164
Moving Virtual Machines Using vMotion During an Upgrade 165
Moving Powered Off or Suspended Virtual Machines During an Upgrade with vCenter Server 166
Upgrading to vCenter Server on a New Machine 167
Migrating ESX 4.x or ESXi 4.x Hosts to ESXi 5.0 in a PXE-Booted Auto Deploy Installation 168
Upgrading vSphere Components Separately in a VMware View Environment 169
Index 171
vSphere Upgrade
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