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3 Upgrading to Dell EMC vSphere and vSAN version 7.0 | Technical white paper | 395
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Audience and scope ........................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Hardware requirements ...................................................................................................................................... 5
1.3 Software requirements ....................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Upgrading prerequisites and scenarios ........................................................................................................................ 6
2.1 Upgrading from Dell EMC customized versions of 5.x ....................................................................................... 6
2.2 Upgrade from Dell EMC customized versions of 6.0.x ....................................................................................... 6
2.3 Issues encountered when upgrading from Dell EMC customized versions of 6.5.x .......................................... 7
2.3.1 Solution ............................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.4 Issues encountered when upgrading from Dell EMC customized versions of 6.7.x to version 7.0 ................... 9
2.4.1 Solution ............................................................................................................................................................. 10
2.5 Upgrading from VMware native 6.x with async drivers installed manually....................................................... 11
2.6 Upgrading from Dell EMC customized versions installed with systems management components ................ 11
2.7 Issues encountered while upgrading to 7.0 using VMware Update Manager (VUM) ...................................... 12
2.8 Upgrading from Dell EMC customized versions installed with stand-alone tools & utilities ............................. 12
2.9 Upgrading to Dell EMC customized ESXi 7.0 from VMware native ESXi 7.0 using Dell EMC add-ons .......... 13
2.10 Upgrading hosts that have third-party custom VIBs ......................................................................................... 14
2.11 vCenter Server upgrade ................................................................................................................................... 14
3 ESXi host upgrade methods ....................................................................................................................................... 15
3.1 ISO-based upgrade (manual and automated) .................................................................................................. 15
3.2 vSphere Life Cycle Manager (vLCM) ............................................................................................................... 15
3.3 Upgrade or update a host with an image profile ............................................................................................... 16
3.4 Post upgrade verification .................................................................................................................................. 16
3.5 vSAN Upgrade .................................................................................................................................................. 17
4 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 18
5 References ................................................................................................................................................................. 19