Migrating vCenter Server 5.5 to vCSA 6.x - unsupported upgrade path
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Hi everyone,
Just tested unsupported upgrade path from vSphere 5.5 with Windows vCenter to vSphere 6 U2 with vCSA and external PSC.
Definitely I am not inventing a wheel here - plenty of people have already done something similar - but I noticed that people for some reasons prefer 'donkey-monkey procedures' so I thought I would just write down all my steps.
Part 1 - Convert vCenter Server 5.5 to vCSA 5.5
Part 2 - Upgrade vCSA 5.5 to vCSA 6.0 U2
Part 3 - Upgrade ESXi hosts with ESXCLI
Part 4 - Moving to external PSCAs always - happy to get any feedback.
Thanks,
Askar