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Has anyone successfully upgraded R510 / R710 servers running ESXi 4.1 Embedded to the new ESXi 5.0? Any hangups or missing hardware drivers?
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Has anyone successfully upgraded R510 / R710 servers running ESXi 4.1 Embedded to the new ESXi 5.0? Any hangups or missing hardware drivers?
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October 17th, 2011 07:00
Unless you have some very legacy hardware, vSphere5 only adds support for new hardware.
A few notes though; if you are connected to a SAN, verify your SAN (and it's current firmware) is supported with vSphere5. As it stands, Dell's MD3000/MD3000i SAN series isn't supported, and the MD3200/3600 series requires a firmware upgrade to support vSphere5.
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November 9th, 2011 19:00
Can you provide the firmware version that is required on the MD3200 for vSphere 5.
I have upgraded to vSphere 5 and a number of servers that use a MD3200i for iSCSI are having and issue with disk latency. But it has only happened since I applied the latest pacth release from VMware that was a bug fix long reboot times for hosts with iSCSI connections.
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November 11th, 2011 10:00
Go to the downloads for the MD3200. You'll need the latest management software (released 9/26/11 (and is 1.5GB)) and the firmware 07.80.xx.xx (also released 9/26/11).
Update the management software first, then read the textfile with the instruction on upgrading; you have to first upgrade to 07.75.28.60 and only then can you upgrade to the 07.80-firmware.