{"id":196,"date":"2009-06-08T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T08:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-06-08T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T08:28:30","slug":"offline-upgrade-from-esx-3x-to-vsphere-esx-4x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Offline upgrade from ESX 3.x to vSphere (ESX 4.x)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to perform an offline upgrade of an ESX 3.x host to the new vSphere\u00c2\u00a0 host there are a few ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Using a DVD<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre>\/root\/esxupgrade.sh storage1<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Using the DVD ISO<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre>esxupgrade.sh -i \/vmfs\/volumes\/storage1\/esx4.iso \/vmfs\/volumes\/storage1<\/pre>\n<p>storage1 &#8211; should be a VMDK local datastore attached to the host.<br \/>\nstorage1 &#8211; should be at least 8.4GB in size.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1009440\">Read the full guide here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to perform an offline upgrade of an ESX 3.x host to the new vSphere\u00c2\u00a0 host there are a few ways. Using a DVD: \/root\/esxupgrade.sh storage1 Using the DVD ISO: esxupgrade.sh -i \/vmfs\/volumes\/storage1\/esx4.iso \/vmfs\/volumes\/storage1 storage1 &#8211; should be a VMDK local datastore attached to the host. storage1 &#8211; should be at least 8.4GB\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=196\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[136,137,134,135,131],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esx-migrate","category-esx-x","tag-esx3","tag-esx4","tag-offline","tag-upgrade","tag-vsphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}