Difference between revisions of "Information Systems:VMware Upgrade - December 2020"

Latest revision as of 01:27, 19 December 2020

This page contains notes on the version upgrade performed on the virtual infrastructure. Specifically:

Verified that the hardware of the 3 servers hosts are listed on VMware compatibility list for 7.0U1. Therefore, the result remains a supported configuration. Not sure how much longer we have with this (usually they cut it off at some point), but vSphere 7 appears to be a LTS/major release (long-term support), so we're still in a good place age-wise (of the server hardware).
vCenter upgraded using UI installer on lab-pc. In-place upgrade performed.
Pre-check error was produced initially: NTP of vCenter had old domain controllers. Had to edit /etc/ntp.conf in command line (start bash in vsphere-cli on the appliance, edit with vi).
VCSA virtual disk was set to be thin-provisioned (thick-provisioned prior to this).

Used new installation method - Lifecycle Manager. Did not have physical media prepared or plugged in so the introduction of this software/feature in v7 (actually v6.7) was a timely and welcomed surprise.
Prepared new baseline for the upgrade.

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 * Pre-check error was produced initially: NTP of vCenter had old domain controllers. Had to edit /etc/ntp.conf in command line (start bash in vsphere-cli on the appliance, edit with vi).
 * VCSA virtual disk was set to be thin-provisioned (thick-provisioned prior to this).
+==ESXi upgrade notes==
+* Used new installation method - Lifecycle Manager. Did not have physical media prepared or plugged in so the introduction of this software/feature in v7 (actually v6.7) was a timely and welcomed surprise.
+* Prepared new baseline for the upgrade.
 ==Other notes==