Installation guide

Updated Information
This vSphere Update publication is updated with each release of the product or when necessary.
This table provides the update history of the vSphere Update publication.
Revision Description
EN-000589-02
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The topic “Required Ports for the vCenter Server Appliance,” on page 23 was added.
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In the topic “Format a USB Flash Drive to Boot the ESXi Installation or Upgrade,” on page 84, a step
was added to determine how the USB flash device is identified by the operating system.
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In the topic “Prerequisites for the vCenter Server Upgrade,” on page 30, in the section "Prerequisites
for Microsoft SQL Databases," text was added to the prerequisite for JDK 1.6 to clarify that the vCenter
Server installer installs JDK 1.6.
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The topic “vCenter Server Database Patch and Configuration Requirements,” on page 33 was updated
to remove outdated information about supported database configurations, and to add a link to the
online Product Interoperability Matrix for such information.
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Minor revisions were made throughout the publication.
EN-000589-01
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In the topic “Format a USB Flash Drive to Boot the ESXi Installation or Upgrade,” on page 84, the
following changes were made.
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In step 4, "syslinux-3.82" was changed to "syslinux-3.86" and in the second line of the command,
"sdb1" was changed to "sdb."
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An additional step was added after step 8.
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A note was added to advise that the same USB flash drive cannot be used both to store the
installation script ks file and to boot the installation or upgrade.
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In the topic “Create a USB Flash Drive to Store the ESXi Installation or Upgrade Script,” on page 85,
a note was added to advise that the same USB flash drive cannot be used both to store the installation
script ks file and to boot the installation or upgrade.
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In the topic “ESXi Hardware Requirements,” on page 13, the following changes were made.
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The information about supported x64 multicore processors and ESXi memory requirements was
updated.
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A note was added advising that support for hardware virtualization must be enabled on x64 CPUs
to support 64-bit virtual machines.
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In the topic “vCenter Server and vSphere Client Hardware Requirements,” on page 17, the following
changes were made.
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In the section "VMware vCenter Server Appliance Hardware Requirements and
Recommendations," a note was added to explain the inventory limits of the vCenter Server
Appliance embedded database.
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In the table "Recommended JVM Heap Settings for vCenter Server," the figures for Profile-Driven
Storage Service were corrected.
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In the topic “Supported Database Upgrades,” on page 34, in the table "vCenter Server Upgrade
Scenarios for Each Database Type," the entry for MS SQL Server 2005 Express was corrected.
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In the topic, “Determine Whether an Update Requires the Host to Be in Maintenance Mode or to Be
Rebooted,” on page 129, information was added to step 2.
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Minor revisions were made throughout the publication.
EN-000589-00 Initial release.
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