VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that accelerates the digital transformation to cloud computing and promotes success in the digital economy.
VMware vSphere 5.5 upgrade to 6.5īy upgrading to vSphere 6.5 you will continue to benefit from VMware full support and subscription services until November 2021.
Verify support for the upgrade path from your current version of vSphere or vCentre Server to your planned upgrade version by using the VMware upgrade path compatibility matrix. If you have a mixed environment with vCenter Server running 6.0 or 6.5 managing ESXi hosts 5.5, you have to upgrade the hosts to at least version 6.0 before upgrading the vCenter Server.
Customers looking to complete a vSphere 5.5 upgrade must first upgrade to vSphere 6.0 or 6.5 and then upgrade to vSphere 6.7 (upgrade not supported vSphere 6.7.0 released before vSphere 6.5 U2). It is worth noting that vSphere 5.5 does not have a direct upgrade path to vSphere 6.7. To ensure your virtual infrastructure is fully supported it is recommended that any customers that are still using vSphere 5.5 upgrade now. Technical Guidance for vSphere 5.5 will be available until Septemthrough the VMware self-help portal, however VMware will not offer new hardware support, server/client/guest OS updates, or any new security patches or bug fixes during this time. VMware Extended Support is intended to provide security and Severity 1 fixes for customers legacy environments whilst they are migrating to a newer fully supported version however. The End of General support for vSphere 6.7 will also be on November 15, 2021.įor those customers that are not in a position to upgrade and are active on Support and Subscription, they will have the option to purchase VMware Extended Support at a premium price. To encourage customers to upgrade, VMware has now extended the general support for vSphere 6.5 to a full five years from its date of release, which means the general support for vSphere 6.5 will end November 15, 2021. In order for customers to preserve their full level of support and subscription services, VMware recommends that any customers using vSphere 5.5 upgrade to a newer version, between vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 as soon as possible.
If your primary goal is to patch your single host and update VMware tools though, the steps on the link I provided above will take a fraction of the time to complete and will not require you to add 1 or potentially 2 new VMs to your host.Ĭan you clarify what your final goal is? We've bounced from VMware Tools to VUM to vCenter during the course of this thread - knowing what your concerns and ultimate goals are would help us advise you better.This week sees the end of general support for VMware vSphere 5.5, if you haven’t upgraded already, now is the time to start your vSphere 5.5 upgradeġ9 th September 2018 will be the end of general support for VMWare vSphere 5.5, this also includes vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.5, vCenter Server 5.5 and vSAN 5.5. I can put together a series of Knowledge base articles for you to go through and read.
If you want to install on a Windows server, be warned that it is not a trivial thing.
Do you want to do an appliance install or a full install on a Windows server? The former is far easier to set up and manage, but since it is a virtual appliance you would need an additional machine to install VUM on. That link just brings me to a login page, because I am not logged in as you )Īs for what to download, it depends. What item do I download? I currently have ESXi 5.5