vSphere 6.7 - How to upgrade vCenter 6.5 to vCenter 6.7 Update 1

hello everyone and welcome to the sysadmin tutorials YouTube channel in today's video I'm going to be performing a vCenter server 6.5 upgrade to the new vCenter server 6.7 Update 1 I've had a few people ask me for this guide so I'm going to run through the entire upgrade process as if it were a production vCenter server upgrade a quick overview of the main steps that I'll be guiding you through number one read the release notes this is extremely important even if you have performed many upgrades in the past you should always read the release notes this can be the make or break took successful or unsuccessful installation there can be important pre steps that you need to do before or after an upgrade and these points are always highlighted in the release notes number 2 read through the vCenter six point seven upgrade documentation this will give you guidance into how to upgrade your particular topology for example a V Center with embedded platform services controller versus V Center with external platform services controller number three check the VMware compatibility upgrade Path number four check the VMware interoperability matrix and number five backup everything let's start at step number one reading the release notes up on screen is the link to the vCenter server six point seven update one release notes I'll click on installation and upgrade notes for this release and we'll see if there's anything extra that we need to do I've read through all of this documentation already and these sections explain that most of the vSphere web configuration options are now implemented in the vSphere html5 client as an example if we click on vSphere networking you can see the note down the bottom here that in vSphere six point seven update one almost all of the vSphere web client functionality is implemented in the vSphere client which is the html5 client at step two we have the vCenter six point seven upgrade documentation make sure you read this section thoroughly as it also highlights points that need to be taken into consideration for example if you are using any third party plugins or as I mentioned earlier the upgrade sequence for a vCenter server with platform services controller Versa vCenter with embedded platform services controller step number three let's check the VMware compatibility upgrade path anything highlighted in green is a supported upgrade path we can see from this table that we can only upgrade to V Center six point seven if our current V Center is at version 6.0 anything older than V Center six point zero will need to be upgraded to a six point zero release first followed by a second upgrade to six point seven an interesting point to mention here is that if you are at vCenter server six point five update two you cannot upgrade to V Center six point seven you must upgrade to V Center six point seven update one the reason for this is that six point seven was released before six point five update - this means that six point seven does not roll over the new features or patches that were introduced in six point five update - for now we don't need to worry about that as we can upgrade straight to six point seven update one in step four we're going to check the VMware interoperability matrix within my environment I'm running NSX to prepare for this lab I check through this table last night and found that I had to upgrade my nsx installation from six point four point one to six point four point three so that V Center six point seven is supported if you have any other products installed within V Center such as visa operations vCenter Orchestrator etc be sure to check the version compatibility here lastly for Step five we're going to back up our vCenter server i'm going to open up the vSphere html5 web interface and I will log on with my administrator username and password the vCenter that I'll be upgrading is this one here NSX - a - vc one I will right-click on it select power and then shut down guest OS and I'll click yes to confirm the shutdown once the VM is shut down we'll right click on it will select snapshots and take a snapshot I'll type in pre upgrade for the snapshot name and in the description I'll just put previous owner six-point-seven and we'll click ok will now power on the vCenter server and once the vCenter server is powered on we're going to login to the vCenter admin interface i'll log in as root to backup our configuration I'm gonna click on the backup button in the top right corner I'll select FTP I'll enter in my FTP server address and path I'll then enter in my FTP server username and password you also have the option to encrypt your backup data but for this lab I'm going to leave that on ticked and we'll click on next I'm going to leave the default option selected although you can optionally deselect stats events alarms and tasks this screen will display a summary of your backup options click finish to accept them or click back to change your options and the backup is now in progress we now have a successful backup of our vCenter server so I'm going to click OK the last backup we're going to do is of the vSphere distributed switch to do this I'll log in to my vSphere web interface once we've logged into the vSphere web interface I'm going to click on networking I'll right click on my vSphere distributed switch I'll select settings and then export configuration I'll select distributed switch and all pot groups and I'll click ok select yes to do you want to save the exported file and we'll change the file name to something meaningful I'll be using NSX AVC 1 - VDS - backup NSX a - VC 1 is the host name of my vCenter server I'll click on save now it's time to start the upgrade the upgrade is broken up into two steps similar to a fresh deployment stage one deploys the new appliance as stage 2 will perform the actual upgrade sequence which includes copying data from my source v centers 6.5 to the new vCenter six-point-seven server I've already downloaded the full vCenter 6.7 ISO file however the ISO file can be downloaded from my VMware comm after logging in head on over to the downloads section and then under all products vmware vsphere we can click on view download components and products next to VMware vCenter server 6.7 Update 1 we'll click on go to downloads and we'll want to download the VMware vCenter server appliance the file size is three point nine five gig and you just click on download now to download the ISO file I'm going to mount the ISO image by right clicking on the file and selecting mount once the ISO file is mounted we're going to go into VCS a UI installer and then win32 I'm going to scroll down until I come to install orexi I'll right-click on that and select run as administrator within the vCenter server appliance installer we have a few options here that we can select however for today's layer we're going to be selecting the upgrade option first we'll begin with stage one which is deploying the appliance so we'll click Next we'll accept the user License Agreement and in this window we're going to be connecting to our source vCenter server so that's our V Center 6.5 server once you've typed in the fully qualified domain name or the IP address we can click on connect to sauce now that we've connected to the source of vCenter server I'm going to enter in the SSO password for my administrator at vSphere dot local account and I'll also enter in the password for my appliance os root account now I'll enter in my vCenter server name that manages this nested vCenter server I'll enter in the administrator of vSphere dot local account password here this account has administrative access to VM V Center and I'll click Next I'll accept the certificate warning I'll now type in the vCenter server where I wish to deploy the new appliance remember that this is phase one of the upgrade where the Installer will first deploy a new VM and then phase two will copy all the settings from the source once again this will be vm v center and i'll also type in my administrator at vSphere dot local username and password once again I will accept the certificate warning it's I'll click yes now we'll select a folder of where we wish to place our virtual machine I'll be placing mine in NSX lab and I'll click Next next I'll select the computer resource where I wish to deploy the virtual machine this is simply going to be my cluster which is called VM lab cluster if I expand this you can see the amount of ESXi hosts I have within this cluster for now I'm going to be calling my virtual machine NSX a VC 67 once the virtual machine has been deployed I can then rename the virtual machine within V Center and put it back to its an original name which was NSX a VC 1 I'll now just type in my root password and I'll also confirm the root password for the deployment size we have a few options ranging from tiny all the way up to extra-large and this is really going to depend on how many ESXi hosts you have in your environment and you can see that by looking into this column right here it also going to depend on how many virtual machines that you have running in your environment for my lab I'm going to be leaving this on tiny and for the storage size we also have some options to select between default large and extra-large changing the storage size also changes the storage gigabyte as you can see in this center column right here so I click on large you can see the amounts have increased if I click on extra-large they've increased once again and this really depends on how long you wish to keep your statistics and events and tasks for my lab I'm just gonna select default which is the smallest option and we'll click on next the data store that will be provisioning this virtual machine on is just called Synology - 1815 - NFS one so it's the only NFS data store that I have in this environment for now so I'll have that selected and I'll click Next now we'll need to place this virtual machine into the same network as our source vCenter server 6.5 my source V Center is in the home lab internal network and my temporary IP address that I'll be entering here is going to be 192 168 1 dot 7 for the subnet mask is slash 24 or 2 4 5 2 4 5 2 4 5 dot 0 and my default gateway is 192 168 1 dot 1 lastly I'll enter in my DNS server address which is 192 168 1 1 0 1 and we'll click on next this screen displays the summary of all our settings like with the other wizards we can simply click on the back button to go and make changes if we are happy with our settings we click on the finish button and our vCenter server will now start deploying phase one of our vCenter server six point seven upgrade is now complete I'll click on continue and now I'll begin on phase two I'll click Next the pre upgrade check result displays the following warning VM guest OS patch baselines host upgrade baseline files and ESX 5.5 and lo our host patch baselines will not be copied across to update manager 6.7 I'll click on close here we have three options we can copy across our configuration configuration events and tasks or configuration events tasks and performance metrics for my lab I'm just going to be selecting the configuration option which is the first one before clicking on next it's important to understand that there is going to be a little bit of downtime for your vCenter server your source vCenter server is going to be shut down once all the configuration is copied across you destination V Sena six-point-seven server is going to import the configuration and switch over to the original source IP address so be sure to allow for this downtime and notify anyone that needs to know in your organization but right now I'm going to click on next optionally you can select to opt into the customer experience Improvement Program I'm going to untick this and click Next and once again we have a summary of all of our settings that we've entered we've urgently taken to backups of our source vCenter server so I'm going to click this button here which says I've backed up the source vCenter server and all the required data from the database and we'll click finish a warning is displayed explaining that the source vCenter server will be shut down once the network configuration is enabled on the destination vCenter server so we'll click OK to continue phase two is now complete we get some information on screen here in regards to if you are using auto deploy as this is a new server you need to update the TFTP settings with the new set of files what is a file a file is a simple config file that points to the new vCenter server also that VC is six point seven disables TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols if you have an application that relies on these protocols you can run the TLS configurator tool located within the appliance in this directory if you need to do this follow the instructions in the KB article highlighted on screen will now browse to the appliance getting started page which is located at this address here we're going to click on launch vSphere client html5 and next I'll login with administrator at vSphere dot local once we're logged in make sure you have your V Center highlighted in the top left-hand corner and that you are in the summary tab if I scroll down and look under version information we can see that our V Center version is now six point seven and the build number is one zero two four four eight five seven which is update one if you're not sure what build number equals which release you can browse to the following KB article which highlights the vCenter version and build number we can see in the second column V Center appliance six point seven update one that the build number is one zero two four four eight five seven which corresponds to our build number of the new V Center six point seven in my next video I'll be upgrading our ESXi hosts within this environment from six point five to ESXi 6 point 7 update one their first host I will show you how to update using update manager and the second host I will update via the CLI ok that completes this tutorial and how to upgrade V Center 6.5 to V Center six point seven update one if you any questions please leave them in the comments below and I'll be sure to get to them as soon as possible thank you all for watching and hope you all have a great November leading into the Christmas holiday period

Channel: sysadmintutorials

Views: 69,254

Keywords: vmware, vcenter 6.7, vsphere 6.7, vcsa 6.7, virtualization, vcenter, vsphere, vcsa, virtual center server appliance, upgrade, snapshot, backup, vcenter 6.5, vsphere 6.5, vcsa 6.5

Id: ZgukEDMjmdI

Length: 16min 55sec (1015 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 11 2018