So don’t expect out of the box functionality after upgrading to vSphere 7 in regards to Kubernetes. Note that although Kubernetes features are part of vSphere yet the functionality required other components as well to activate such as NSX and SDDC Manager which if combined with all other components simply means VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 4). To make it easier, make sure to upgrade you vSphere and vCenter 6.7 to the latest release before upgrading to 7 so that the embedded PSC convergence functionality which can be done manually prior to upgrade has the latest updates.
VMWARE ESXI 6.7 UPGRADE PATH WINDOWS
Now, if you have a Windows vCenter with or without an external PSC or a vCenter appliance with an external PSC, vCenter 7 upgrade will automatically converge the external PSC thus you will end up with a single converged vCenter with an embedded PSC. Again make sure that the latest patches are applied to both vSphere and vCenter. For some reason I could not find the upgrade path for vCenter so I am assuming that the same applies, upgrading and converging PSC for vCenter appliance from 6.7 to 7 worked out well for me.
VSphere 7 – vCenter Server 7 Migration & Upgradesĭirect upgrades to vSphere 7 are not supported from vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 hence any of these versions need to be upgraded to 6.5 or 6.7 to conduct a direct vSphere upgrade to vSphere 7. When PSC is embedded, vCenter HA will handle all services installed on that vCenter including PSC functionality thus the HA needed for vCenter does not rely on any external component. The reason being that external PSC HA required load balancing which for a core infrastructure component does not make sense to rely on external services. NSX-T 3 has been released and supports vCenter/vSphere 7.Ī very important change in my humble opinion and one that I have been personally waiting for, is the depreciation of the external PSC and the Windows based vCenter. Seems that it is still not up to date at least for NSX-T so give some time to update, I have seen that NSX-T latest is supported in the release notes at least for vSphere 7. Also make sure that vCenter is backup-up and has a recent snapshot prior to upgrade.
VMWARE ESXI 6.7 UPGRADE PATH SOFTWARE
Things to look out for are NSX(V/T), vRealize Suite, and/or any service that integrates with vSphere or vCenter such as backup software for example. Last but not least, verify the interoperability of all VMware and Non-VMware deployed components for vSphere, vCenter, and VSAN 7 compatibility. More importantly before upgrading, and I am sure many of you know this the hard way, lets check the release notes and important information on 7 build to visualize what will and will not work after this major upgrade on top of known issues and limitations. In this post I am going to walk you through an upgrade from 6.7 to 7 for vCenter, vSphere through Lifecyle Manager, and lastly vSAN. VMware just released vCenter 7, vSphere 7, and vSAN 7 to the public introducing long awaited features such as Kubernetes integration, Improved DRS, Lifecycle Manager, intrinsic security, and hybrid cloud services.
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