vSphere Migration Checklist
April 27th, 2009 | 
Author: VMware has published a vSphere Pre-requisites Checklist PDF that will be very handy document to have when planning for the upgrade of a current VMware Infrastructure. The following is part of the document’s introduction and explains it’s purpose:
“This Pre-requisites Checklist is intended for those involved in planning, designing, and upgrading an existing VMware Infrastructure to VMware vSphere. The intended audience includes the roles listed below:
- Solution Architects responsible for driving architecture-level decisions
- Consultants, Partners, and IT personnel, who require knowledge for deploying and upgrading the vSphere infrastructure
it is assumed that they have knowledge and familiarity with VMware Infrastructure and have access to the VMware Infrastructure and VMware vSphere product documentation for reference.”
The document is considered a draft version, and will be updated when vSphere is generally available (GA) later this Quarter (Late May?). Even in it’s current state, the PDF walks administrators and architects through all possible planning and upgrade scenarios of both vCenter and ESX hosts and points out a lot of the potential gotchas of a vSphere 4 migration.
I’m sure I will use this document regularly over then next 12 months. I might as well have it laminated once it’s finalized after GA!
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