February 2015
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 28m
English
If there are vCenter Server Appliances (VCSAs) managing subsets of your environment, then the upgrade of the appliance is necessary prior to upgrading the ESXi hosts managed by it. There is no concept of an in-place upgrade of a VCSA to a major version, meaning that the upgrade can't really be directly applied to the appliance itself. A new appliance is deployed and the configuration is imported from the existing appliance.
You can download the latest available VCSA 5.5 appliance from VMware's download portal:
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