What might cause the upgrade to be unsuccessful?

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to 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?

An administrator is upgrading an ESXi 3.5 host to ESXi 5.x with an intermediate upgrade to 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.
The ESXi host has 4GB RAM.

B.
The ESXi host has one processor.

C.
ESXi 3.5 is not supported for upgrade.

D.
Update Manager cannot upgrade a previously upgraded host.



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Mohsin Alvi

Mohsin Alvi

According to this
“because of the size the /boot partition was allocated in ESX 3.x, these hosts cannot be migrated to ESXi 5. Any ESX 4.x hosts that had previously been upgraded from ESX 3.x will not have the required minimum 350 MB of space in the /boot partition. In these cases a fresh install is required. VUM 5.0 still supports the great patching capabilities for legacy 3.5 and 4 ESX/ESXi servers and upgrades for 4.x hosts.”

Ans C should be true

joe

joe

Both reasons, C and D, are valid. But that may not be the correct answer according to VMwares exam.

wjg

wjg

The section you quoted talks about upgrade ESX 3.5 hosts, not ESXi 3.5 hosts as the question specifies.

Bart

Bart

C. Is NOT a valid answer. The Question already stated an in-between upgrade to 4.0.

D. Is valid:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc/GUID-CD26D0E7-D18C-482F-88BC-69139BDEC0FB.html

4.x ESX host that was upgraded from ESX 3.x with a partition layout incompatible with ESXi 5.x

Not supported.
The VMFS partition cannot be preserved. Upgrading or migration is possible only if there is at most one VMFS partition on the disk that is being upgraded and the VMFS partition must start after sector 1843200. Perform a fresh installation. To keep virtual machines, migrate them to a different system.

mariac

mariac

host must have at least 2 cores.

Jetstream

Jetstream

Answer B is correct, yes.
But they should be more specific and NOT call it “has a single Intel Xeon processor”. This is missleading since a CPU and a Core is not allways the same πŸ˜‰

Brian

Brian

B is incorrect because an Intel Xeon processor is a multi core processor, thus fulfilling the requirement of having 2 cores.

D is correct – Update Manager cannot upgrade a previously upgraded host.

Ryan

Ryan

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.

none

none

agree with Ryan, see
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc_50%2FGUID-AA106086-E10D-456E-B0B9-340D3D1462C3.html
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. Such hosts do not have sufficient free space in the /boot partition to support the Update Manager upgrade process. This problem also affects some 4.x ESX hosts, even if they were not previously upgraded from ESX 3.x. Hosts must have more than 350MB of free space in the /boot partition to support the Update Manager upgrade process. If the host that you are upgrading does not have more than 350MB of free space in the /boot partition, use a scripted or interactive upgrade instead.

Baher

Baher

B is the correct answer as Mariac shared. Two CPUs.

Roberto L

Roberto L

Ryan is right, option D is correct.

mdvlt80

mdvlt80

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc_50%2FGUID-AA106086-E10D-456E-B0B9-340D3D1462C3.html

To upgrade version 3.5 ESX or ESXi to ESXi 5.x, you must first upgrade version 3.5 ESX or ESXi to version 4.x ESX or ESXi. See the VMware vSphere 4.x documentation Web page for information about upgrading from version 3.5 ESX or ESXi 3.5 to version 4.x ESX or ESXi.

—vmware so which is it yes or no?

mdvlt80

mdvlt80

TestKing VCP-510 engine 3.5.1 v22.0 exp July 9 2013
–An administrator is upgrading an ESX3.5 host to ESXi5.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?
–Answer D. ESX 3.5 is not supported by Update Manager?

Ali

Ali

C is the correct Answer which will cause Vum to fail the upgrade

Rich

Rich

C & D seem to be true, but you can 3.x->4.x->5.x without VUM