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The second stage walks you through the setup wizard to choose the data types to transfer from the old to
the new appliance. The new appliance uses the temporary network settings until the data transfer
finishes. After the data transfer finishes, the new appliance assumes the network settings of the old
appliance. This stage completes the data transfer, starts the services of the new upgraded appliance, and
powers off the old appliance.
As an alternative to performing the second stage of the upgrade with the GUI installer, you can log in to
the Appliance Management Interface of the newly deployed appliance, https://FQDN_or_IP_address:
5480.
Required Information for Upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance
5.5 or 6.0 or Platform Services Controller Appliance 6.0
The GUI upgrade wizard prompts you for information about the vCenter Server Appliance 5.5,
vCenter Server Appliance 6.0, or Platform Services Controller appliance 6.0 that you want to upgrade,
deployment information for the new 6.5 appliance, and the types of data that you want to transfer from the
old to the new appliance. It is a best practice to keep a record of the values that you entered.
You can use this worksheet to record the information that you need for upgrading a
vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 with an embedded vCenter Single Sign-On, a vCenter Server Appliance 5.5
with an external vCenter Single Sign-On, a vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 with an embedded
Platform Services Controller, a vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 with an external
Platform Services Controller, or a Platform Services Controller appliance 6.0.
Table 2‑6. Required Information During Stage 1 of the Upgrade
Required for Upgrade of Required Information Default Your Entry
All deployment types FQDN or IP address of the source appliance that
you want to upgrade
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HTTPS port of the source appliance 443
vCenter Single Sign-On administrator user name
of the source appliance
Important The user must be
administrator@your_domain_name.
administrator@vsph
ere.local
Password of the vCenter Single Sign-On
administrator user
-
Password of the root user of the source appliance -
All deployment types FQDN or IP address of the source server on which
resides that appliance that you want to upgrade
The source server can be either an ESXi host or a
vCenter Server instance.
Note The source server cannot be the
vCenter Server Appliance that you want to
upgrade. In such cases, use the source ESXi host.
-
HTTPS port of the source server 443
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