VMware vSphere 5.5 Upgrade
In this tutorial I guide you through how to upgrade an existing VMware vSphere 5.1 environment to VMware vSphere 5.5.
We run through upgrading:
- Single Sign On
- Inventory Service
- vCenter Server
- Web Client
- vSphere Client
- Update Manager
- ESXi host

VMware vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 1. SSO and Inventory Service
VMware vSphere 5.5 Upgrade Part 2. vCenter Server, Web Client, Upgrade Manager and ESXi
References:
VMware – vSphere 5.5 Documentation
VMware – vSphere 5.5 Licensing
VMware – Product Interoperability Matrixes
Disclaimer:
All the tutorials included on this site are performed in a lab environment to simulate a real world production scenario. As everything is done to provide the most accurate steps to date, we take no responsibility if you implement any of these steps in a production environment.
Really great video. Thanks for putting this together!
Thanks for this info.. have to perform this upgrade at some point..
Hi Vinod, how is everything referenced in your vsphere design, by DNS or IP ?