Everything went great, but as soon as I had rebooted the last remaining Dell Host, my whole vSphere environment was screwed up.Īs you can see, all the ESXi hosts were not responding anymore – but they are fully initialized and reachable through the network. When ESXi is already installed, the booted installer gives you the possibility to perform an upgrade of the ESXi installation.Īfter I have done the ESXi host migration of the vSAN Compute Cluster, I continued with the 2 remaining Dell Hosts in the vSAN Management Cluster. The ESXi host migration itself was done by creating a bootable USB thumbdrive from the ISO download, and booting the ESXi host from that USB thumbdrive. Therefore 2 remaining ESXi hosts were always online, and the running VMs and the vSAN based Datastore were always accessible through the migration phase. I have started the ESXi Host migration from ESXi 6.5 U1 to 6.7 in my 3-node vSAN Compute Cluster by upgrading one host after the next one. I have 3 HP D元80 G8 Hosts in my vSAN Compute Cluster, and I have 2 older Dell R210 II Hosts in my 2-node vSAN Management Cluster. This means now that I can also use the HTML 5 Client for the vSAN functionality! 🙂Īfter I have done the VCSA migration, the next big step was the migration of the various physical ESXi Hosts. Let’s continue now with the second Stage of the VCSA migration – copying the data from the old VCSA to the newly deployed VCSA.Īfter some time, the copying of the data was also completed, and the VCSA was succesfully migrated to 6.7. The newly deployed VCSA becomes your current, active VCSA.Īfter you have provided all necessary configuration information, the new VCSA is ready to be deployed.Īfter a few minutes, the first stage of the VCSA migration was completed.
The installer performs here the following approach: One side effect of the VCSA migration is that the migration can’t happen in-place. In my case I have also started with the VCSA migration in the first step through the Upgrade Option in the VCSA Installer.
And afterwards you are migrating your individual ESXi Hosts to the new version. VCSA MigrationĪ general rule of thumb during a vSphere Migration is always to start with the VCSA Appliance. In this blog posting I want to describe the necessary steps, and in which pitfalls I was running into. And last Thursday it was finally the big day: I’ve done the migration from vSphere 6.5 to 6.7. A few months ago I have prepared the physical hardware my VMware vSphere based Home Lab for the migration from 6.5 to 6.7.
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