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Upgrading Virtual Machines 13
After you perform an ESX/ESXi upgrade, VMware recommends that you upgrade all the virtual machines that
reside on the host.
The first step in upgrading virtual machines is to upgrade VMware Tools. If the virtual machines do not have
VMware Tools installed, you can use the VMware Tools upgrade procedure to install VMware Tools. After
you install or upgrade VMware Tools, upgrade the virtual machine hardware.
VMware offers the following tools for upgrading virtual machines:
vSphere Client
Requires you to perform the virtual machine upgrade one step at a time.
vCenter Update Manager
Automates the process of upgrading and patching virtual machines, thereby
ensuring that the steps occur in the correct order. You can use vCenter Update
Manager to directly upgrade virtual machine hardware, VMware Tools, and
virtual appliances. You can also patch and update third-party software running
on the virtual machines and virtual appliances. See the vCenter Update Manager
Administration Guide.
NOTE Do not use vmware-vmupgrade.exe to upgrade virtual machines.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“About VMware Tools,” on page 84
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“About Virtual Machines and ESX/ESXi Upgrades,” on page 84
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“Orchestrated Upgrade of Virtual Machines Scenario,” on page 84
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“Planning Downtime for Virtual Machines,” on page 85
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“Downtime for Upgrading Virtual Machines,” on page 85
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“Perform an Interactive Upgrade of VMware Tools on a Microsoft Windows Guest,” on page 86
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“Perform an Interactive Upgrade of VMware Tools on a Linux Guest in an X Terminal,” on page 87
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“Perform an Interactive Upgrade of VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with the RPM Installer,” on
page 88
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“Perform an Interactive Upgrade of VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with the Tar Installer,” on
page 89
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“Perform an Interactive Upgrade of VMware Tools on a Solaris Guest,” on page 91
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“Perform an Interactive Upgrade of VMware Tools in a Netware Virtual Machine,” on page 92
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“Perform an Automatic Upgrade of VMware Tools,” on page 93
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- Updated Information 7
- 8 VMware, Inc 8
- About This Book 9
- VMware vSphere Documentation 10
- Host Upgrade 11
- Datastore Upgrade 12
- Virtual Machine Upgrade 12
- Licensing 13
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- Example Upgrade Scenarios 2 15
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- (with vCenter Server) 22
- (Without vCenter Server) 23
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- Changing Host Types 3 25
- 26 VMware, Inc 26
- System Requirements 4 27
- Installation and Storage 28
- Chapter 4 System Requirements 29
- VMware, Inc. 29 29
- ESXi Hardware Requirements 30
- VMware, Inc. 31 31
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- VMware, Inc. 33 33
- Required Ports 34
- DNS Requirements for vSphere 35
- 36 VMware, Inc 36
- Server 5 37
- 38 VMware, Inc 38
- Database Prerequisites 39
- 40 VMware, Inc 40
- Database Scenarios 41
- 42 VMware, Inc 42
- Back Up VirtualCenter 2.x 43
- 44 VMware, Inc 44
- Upgrade to vCenter Server 45
- 46 VMware, Inc 46
- %TEMP%\VCDatabaseUpgrade.log 47
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- Existing Database 7 49
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- VMware, Inc. 53 53
- 54 VMware, Inc 54
- VMware, Inc 55
- Upgrade to the vSphere Client 56
- License Server Scenarios 57
- Server Upgrade 58
- Restore VirtualCenter 2.x 59
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- Permissions 9 61
- Datastore Privileges 62
- Network Privileges 62
- Update Datastore Permissions 63
- Update Network Permissions 64
- 4.0/ESXi 4.0 10 65
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- VMware, Inc. 67 67
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- VMware, Inc. 69 69
- Upgrading from ESX 2.5.5 70
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- 72 VMware, Inc 72
- Upgrade ESX Hosts 73
- 74 VMware, Inc 74
- Upgrade ESXi Hosts 75
- 76 VMware, Inc 76
- Hosts 12 77
- Evaluation Period Countdown 78
- VMware, Inc. 79 79
- Upgrades 80
- Roll Back an ESX Upgrade 80
- VMware, Inc. 81 81
- 82 VMware, Inc 82
- Upgrading Virtual Machines 13 83
- About VMware Tools 84
- VMware, Inc. 85 85
- Windows Guest 86
- X Terminal 87
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- VMware, Inc. 89 89
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- VMware, Inc. 91 91
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- VMware, Inc. 93 93
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- Upgrade Virtual Hardware 95
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- VMware, Inc. 97 97
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- Best Practices for Updates 99
- Add a Host to the List 100
- Download Patches and Updates 100
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- VMware, Inc. 103 103
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- Procedure 105
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