Woke up early this morning and already have some plan for tomorrow activity at my office. Yeh, the plan is to upgrade one of our office ESX 4.0 U1(IBM System x3650) to ESX 4.1 (260247). Although I normally will wait till one month at least after the product has been released, but this is not the case for vSphere 4.1. Now in the process downloading the installer from VMware download site.

I’ll start gathering all information needed for the upgrade process and I may post it here later. Hmm as per VMware HCL, IBM x3650 not supported for ESX 4.1. Nevermind, I’ll test it out.

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athlon_crazy 25/07/2010 9:30 AM

Okay, I’m gonna make a major step in order for us to get familiar with ESXi hypervisor architecture. Before my Team going to do it for our  customer, I think it’s fair enough for us to have it install, configure and manage in our office first. Therefore, undeniable this URL (ESXi) can be a good reference for the migration. This is another good reason why we should choose ESXi.

Update

• Manage ESX 4.1 with vCenter 4.0 -> Not possible (source)
• esxupdate utility bulletin.zip -> workaround (source)
• All about vSphere 4.1 -> url (source)
• VMware KB -> (ESX 4.1 & vCenter 4.1 Upgrade Best Practice (source)
• ESXi Upgrade -> through esxupdate (source)
• ESX Upgrade -> through esxupdate (source)

Finally, we managed to migrate to ESXi 4.1