Upgrade path and interoperability of vmware products 70785. All vms name,os, ip, port group, datastore details. The term upgrade is somewhat misleading since in reality no upgrade path is. How about new vmware storage features unmap and vmfs 6. When you perform datastore upgrades, consider the following items. First thing to consider compatibility of hardware and software. Add platformssolutions to see if they are compatible with the selected solution. Upgrade vmfs2 datastores to vmfs3 if your datastore was formatted with vmfs2, you must first upgrade it to vmfs3. If your datastores were formatted with vmfs2 or vmfs3, you must upgrade the datastores to vmfs5.
Migrating vmfs 5 datastore to vmfs 6 datastore 2147824. Multisolution interoperability and multisolution upgrade path. For vmfs there is no way to perform an inplace upgrade you always. Do not proceed with datastore upgrade until all esx hosts which. Requirements when you are automating the process using windows. Migration paths from vcenter server for windows to vcenter server. This was corrected in the windows 10 ltsc 2016 release, which will now only allow dataonly and clean install options. Upgrade from windows based vcenter to appliance is supported. All extra information and usage details can be found at this website. With vsphere 7, the essential building block of modern cloud infrastructure, administrators and developers alike have access to a unified cloud platform that enables breakthrough productivity with enterprise resilience and quality of service.
Windows 10 ltsc 2015 did not block this upgrade path. The vcenter server that i will be upgrading is running on version 6. To upgrade a vmfs2 datastore, you use a twostep process that involves upgrading vmfs2 to vmfs3 first. Windows 10 upgrade paths windows 10 windows deployment. Vmwares virtual machine file system vmfs is the filesystem of choice for local and blocklevel storage ex. Below is a screenshot of the upgrade path for vcenter server from the vmware product interoperability matrix. Upgrading vmfs datastores to the latest version, might be a task to. If the volume is mounted on the local host, this is a path to the device, i. I used java based code to mount vmfs disk as read only.