Good Afternoon All,
I am in the process of prepping some major changes to my new company's VMware environment. We currently have about 12 hosts running between ESXi 4.0 and ESXi 5.1 and every build in-between. vCenter is obviously 5.1, and it is running the local SQL Express DB, currently still running at 4.6GB (I know 5 hosts and 4GB are the limits). So my question is, knowing that I need to do an upgrade to vCenter for 5.5 do I upgrade the server and move the database, or do I just build a new VM from scratch and install vCenter 5.5 fresh with a new DB. The vCenter server appears to have been originally installed as 5.0 and upgraded to 5.1, so this would be the second upgrade done to it. During my rebuild of the environment I am going to wipe/rebuild all hosts and tear down, rebuild all clusters in the environment, and rebuild all storage. I am leaning towards a complete rebuild since so much else is going on but wanted to bounce the idea of others. Let me know your thoughts.
Thank you,
John