Mastering vSphere 7: A Guide to Upgrading vCenter 6.7 to 7 Update 3

Are you looking to upgrade your VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 3 server to the latest version, vCenter 7 Update 3? In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process step-by-step, showing you how to upgrade your vCenter server in an easy-to-understand format.

This tutorial is designed for anyone who wants to learn about upgrading to vCenter 7. However, it is important to remember to always read the release notes and upgrade guides before attempting any upgrades.

Please note, vSphere 6.7 will reach End Of Support on 15th October 2022, so it's important to plan your upgrade accordingly.

-=Topics include=-
1. Backing up your vCenter Server
2. vCenter Upgrade Stage 1 - Deploying the new appliance
3. vCenter Upgrade Stage 2 - Migration of data and cutover
4. Login and verify new build

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[cstr]

a vmware vid with someone i can understand, nice.

[TheMattMustain]

A great explanation and demonstration! I'll be doing this sometime this month. Cheers

[jagadishkumar]

Its really great Explanation, Thanks for video

[nareshvideos]

Thank you very much, it very nice explanation

[christopherdesouza]

You have to keep in mind that this video is in a nested environment and chances are yours is not. Where you see instruction going back to the parent vcenter of nest in wizard you are probably better off going with the esxi host that vcsa is on as as there is a stage where the vcsa will be offline and as your environment is again probably not nested means that if slow or hiccup the upgrade may fail because the virtual center environment is down. Won't harm your current VM as you can just power it back on or go to host and restore snapshot.

[markvigil]

Another tip, make sure you have PTR records in DNS created for all of the hosts/vms involved as the installer will do reverse DNS lookups.

[nidaren]

Nice vid as per usual. Watched, even though I prefer proxmox.

[limitededitiondesign]

Nice Video-Tutorial and well explained. Do you maybe have a Video-Tutorial of UPGRADING vCenter Servers 6.7 in Enhanced Linked Mode to 7.0 (or/and 8)? Would be nice. Thank you for your precious Work.

[golach]

Seeing the appliance sizing table has made me think one of our vCenters is near the Small limit on VMs. First job tomorrow. Thx.

[rspigner]

Thanks for the great video! Do you have one yet on doing the hosts?

[biksuni]

Very nice explanation. Do you have any tutorial about how to setup "Cluster"?

[nobamaeveragain]

Thank you for this. Do the ESXi hosts need to be upgraded first?

[vnagaraju]

Hi sir windows administrator and vsphere 3years experience resume some reviews

[squigglymonkey]

Thanks for the tutorial, how long did the enitre upgrade process take?

[gerlor]

Nice tutorial. Is vCenter appliance backup necessary? Or snapshot of vcenter vm only should be enough in case of failure. Thanks.

[rapidsheck]

Hey sir, thanks so much for this information!!!
I have a question. I wanted to check if I'm ok to proceed with the vCenter update from 6.7 to 7.0 in relation to the Telecom Cisco VMs? I'm not planning to upgrade the telecom hypervisors, they will stay at 6.7

[kais]

Is there a way to find out what deployment size our existing vcsa (6.7) is configured?

[chankk-wbqd]

a great video !! so it is mean i need to upgrade the vcenter from 6.7 to vcentre 7.x first and then upgrade those esxi host from 6.7 to 7.x? thanks !!

[kbhargav]

A silly question...Will the vsphere 6.5 or 6.7 licences get auto renewed post upgrade to 7.0?

And can we upgrade vcenter 6.5u3 to 7.0u3 directly?

[ogvk]

Thank you for the good video. For me it does not seem to work so well though. Step 2 at 50%, the moment where the old vcenter server gets shut down I also lose connectivity to the new vCenter. I assume this is when the new vcenter appliance takes over the name / IP of the old one. However, both IPs are unpingable. SSH also does not work. I can't even access the log files to see whats wrong. Any ideas would be appreciated. Upgrading from 6.5 to 7.0 btw.