An administrator is upgrading an ESX 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to ESX
4.0 using Update Manager. The host has a single Intel Xeon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a VMFS
datastore on a private, SAN-attached LUN.
What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful?
A.
Update Manager does not support upgrading from ESX.
B.
The host has one processor.
C.
The host has 4GB RAM.
D.
ESX 3.5 is not supported by Update Manager.
You cannot use Update Manager to upgrade a host to ESXi 5.0 if the host was previously upgraded from ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x.
See: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc_50%2FGUID-AA106086-E10D-456E-B0B9-340D3D1462C3.html
OTHER SIMILAR QUESTIONS/ANSWERS:
A.
The ESXi host has 4GB RAM. – ok 2GB is minimum
B.
The ESXi host has one processor. – OK its a xeon and is multi core (2 core minimum)
C.
ESXi 3.5 is not supported for upgrade. – It does, 3.5 > 4.x is fine
D.
Update Manager cannot upgrade a previously upgraded host.
This is the problem, you can’t upgrade a 4.x to 5 if it started as a 3.5. A 4.x fresh to 5 is fine.