If you plan to deploy the new appliance on a DRS cluster of the inventory of a vCenter Server instance, verify that the cluster is not fully automated.įor this case we have 2 platform service controller linked with LB and 2 vCenter linked to each otherįirst step to upgrade the platform service controller PSC and it’s partner.If you plan to deploy the new appliance on an ESXi host, verify that the target ESXi host is not part of a fully automated DRS cluster.If you use an external database, back up the vCenter Server Appliance database.Create a snapshot of the appliance that you want to upgrade as a precaution in case of failure during the upgrade process.Verify that port 443 is open on the source ESXi host.
If you are upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance that is configured with Update Manager, run the Migration Assistant on the source Update Manager machine.The upgrade process establishes an inbound SSH connection to download the exported data from source appliance. Verify that port 22 is open on the appliance that you want to upgrade.Verify that the appliance that you want to upgrade does not run on an ESXi host that is part of a fully automated DRS cluster.We will take about upgrading vCenter Server Appliance with External PSC from 6.0 u3b to 6.5 U1e we done this upgrade before the release of 6.5 U2 which was released few day’s before Release note so we upgrade to 6.5 U2īefore we upgrade to 6.5 you must be prepare the for that :