The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to upgrade an existing vCSA 5.5/6.0 and its components to VCSA 6.5:
- Once you have readied the Windows component servers using migration-assistant, map the VCSA ISO to a machine that can be used to reach the source VCSA over the network. The machine used for this purpose can be running Windows, Linux or macOS.
- Browse the VCSA ISO ROM contents and navigate to vcsa-ui-installer and choose a subdirectory corresponding to your operating system (lin64, mac, win32). In this case, we will navigate to the win32 directory and run the executable installer.exe as an administrator to bring up the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 Installer window.
- On the vCenter Server Appliance ...