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Upgrading to ESXi 5.0 using Dell Customized VMware ESXi images

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used for migration to ESXi 5.0. If you select this option, keep in mind that functionalities for

some of the cards present in the system may be lost due to the driver unavailability if any.

However you can download the drivers from VMware download page and install it manually.

Dell recommends to upgrade from Dell customized VMware ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.0 using latest

Dell customized VMware ESXi 5.0 image.

Fig4: Screen capture taken during migration from Dell Customized VMware ESXi 4.1

update1 to VMware provided ESXi 5.0 - Warning message shown during upgrade

• Scenario 4: Migration from Dell Customized 4.1 Update1 to Dell customized

VMware ESXi 5.0:-

In this case also, you will see the option ‘Force Migrate’ (Refer Fig5). This is due to

the absence of a couple of drivers in VMware provided ESXi 5.0 compared to VMware

provided ESXi 4.1 Update1. VMware provided ESXi 4.1 Update 1 (onwards) image

includes the 3ware SCSI driver (3w-9xxx) and Neterion (NIC) vxge drivers (Refer Fig6). These

are not Dell added drivers. Vxge driver is deprecated from 5.0 onwards. 3w-9xxx is not

available in VMware provided/Dell Customized VMware ESXi 5.0 by default. Refer

http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-update-manager-50-release-

notes.html for more details. Dell recommends doing a ‘Force Migrate’ in this case.

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