Solved: ESXi upgrade on UCS

peterfaber · ‎11-10-2011

Hi,

i have esxi4.1 installed on a few B200 M2 servers, esxi was installed with the cisco-ucs-esxi image.

the question is now that i want to upgrade to esxi5, what image do i need to use ? the normal esxi5 from vmware or the cisco-ucs-esxi5 image ?

im upgrading to the ucs formware from 1.4 to 2.0 before this.

Jeremy Waldrop · ‎11-10-2011

I have loaded about 100 B200s with ESXi 5 and only ever used the standard VMware ISO. All of the B200s have had the VIC M81KR adapters.

For upgrades from 4.1 I have only been doing rebuilds. A lot of them had both N1KV VEM and PowerPath VE so I thought it was the safer route.

Jeremy Waldrop · ‎11-10-2011

The standard ESXi 5 ISO from VMware works just fine.

peterfaber · ‎11-10-2011

so i wont miss drivers or whatever thats on the cisco-esxi image ?

can the cisco-esxi image be used for upgrades at all ?

Jeremy Waldrop · ‎11-10-2011

I have loaded about 100 B200s with ESXi 5 and only ever used the standard VMware ISO. All of the B200s have had the VIC M81KR adapters.

For upgrades from 4.1 I have only been doing rebuilds. A lot of them had both N1KV VEM and PowerPath VE so I thought it was the safer route.

peterfaber · ‎11-10-2011

Thank you for the help Jeremy