User manual VMWARE VSPHERE CLIENT 4.0 UPGRADE GUIDE UPDATE 1

[. . . ] vSphere Upgrade Guide Update 1 ESX 4. 0 ESXi 4. 0 vCenter Server 4. 0 vSphere Client 4. 0 This document supports the version of each product listed and supports all subsequent versions until the document is replaced by a new edition. To check for more recent editions of this document, see http://www. vmware. com/support/pubs. EN-000259-02 vSphere Upgrade Guide You can find the most up-to-date technical documentation on the VMware Web site at: http://www. vmware. com/support/ The VMware Web site also provides the latest product updates. If you have comments about this documentation, submit your feedback to: docfeedback@vmware. com Copyright © 2009, 2010 VMware, Inc. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www. vmware. com/go/patents. [. . . ] Install the vSphere Client and make sure you can access the vCenter Server instance. Upgrade any additional modules that are linked to this instance of vCenter Server. Additional modules might include vCenter Update Manager, vCenter Converter, and vCenter Guided Consolidation, for example. On the VMware Web site, log in to your account page to access the license portal. Using the vSphere Client, assign the upgraded license key to the vCenter Server 4. 0 host. In the vSphere Client, select Home > vCenter Server Settings > Licensing to verify that the vCenter Server is connected to a license server. A license server is required if this vCenter Server is managing ESX 3. x/ ESXi 3. 5 hosts. For information about installing the VMware License Server, see the documentation for VMware Infrastructure 3. For Oracle databases, copy the Oracle JDBC Driver (ojdbc14. jar) driver to the[VMware vCenter Server] \tomcat\lib folder. For SQL Server databases, if you enabled bulk logging for the upgrade, disable it after the upgrade is complete. Optionally, upgrade the ESX/ESXi hosts in the vCenter Server inventory to ESX 4. 0/ESXi 4. 0. When you enable SSL checking, the hosts become disconnected from vCenter Server, and you must reconnect them. n n n n n n n This chapter includes the following topics: n n n n n n "Upgrade to the vSphere Client, " on page 60 "Using a License Server to Manage ESX 3. x/ESXi 3. 5 Hosts, " on page 60 "License Server Scenarios, " on page 61 "Join a Linked Mode Group After a vCenter Server 4. 0 Upgrade, " on page 61 "Set the Maximum Number of Database Connections After a vCenter Server Upgrade, " on page 62 "Restore VirtualCenter 2. x, " on page 63 VMware, Inc. 59 vSphere Upgrade Guide Upgrade to the vSphere Client Virtual machine users and vCenter Server administrators must use the vSphere Client 4. 0 to connect to vCenter Server 4. 0 or to connect directly to ESX 4. 0 hosts. The VI Client 2. 5 and the vSphere Client 4. 0 can be installed on the same machine. No virtual machines or clients need to be powered off for this process. Procedure 1 (Optional) Use Add/Remove Programs from the Windows Control Panel to remove any previous vCenter Server client. Older vCenter Server clients do not need to be removed and are useful if you need to connect to legacy hosts. If the vSphere Client installation fails, uninstall the vSphere Client using Add/Remove Programs from the Windows Control Panel. Install this utility if your environment does not use vCenter Update Manager and you want to use this workstation to initiate upgrades of ESX 3. x/ESXi 3. 5 hosts and manage ESXi host patching. After you install the vSphere Client 4. 0, you can connect to vCenter Server using the domain name or IP address of the Windows machine on which vCenter Server is installed and the user name and password of a user on that machine. If you do not have the VI Client 2. 5 installed and you use vSphere Client to connect to VirtualCenter 2. 5, the vSphere Client prompts you to download and install the VI Client 2. 5. After you install the VI Client 2. 5, you can use the vSphere Client log-in interface to connect to VirtualCenter 2. 5 or vCenter Server 4. 0. What to do next Use the vSphere Client to connect to the vCenter Server IP address with your Windows login username and password. [. . . ] Procedure 1 2 Power off any virtual machines that are running on the host and place the host into maintenance mode. Find out which bulletins are applicable to the ESX/ESXi host. n Search an offline HTTP server: vihostupdate. pl --server <server> --scan --bundle http://<webserver>/rollup. zip n Search the local machine: vihostupdate. pl --server <server> --scan --bundle <local_path>/rollup. zip The --server argument is the ESX/ESXi host name or IP address. You can specify more than one bundle at the command line each time you run the command. For multiple bundles, use a comma to separate the path and file name of the bundle. [. . . ]