I'm planning to upgrade my vSphere Suite, below are the details:-
Current Config:-
vCenter 5.0.0, 455964
ESXi 4.1.0
External DataBase:- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP1) - 10.50.2500.0 (X64) Jun 17 2011 00:54:03 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)
Planning to upgrade to:-
vCenter 5.5 Update1b
ESXi 5.5
DB:-Stays the same
My query:-
1) Is above mentioned DB version supported when I uprgade my vCenter to 5.5, I am asking this as the interopability matrix at vmware.com is not working.
2) When I right click on ESXi 5.5 to create new VM at the place where we've to select Guest OS, I see some of the Guest OS list is missing on ESXi 5.5 as compared to ESXi 4.1
I don't see Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard (32-bit), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard (64-bit) & Microsoft Windows 2000 server in that list. Can you please confirm once I upgrade the hosts from ESXi4.1 to ESXi 5.5 machines with such Guest OS will still be working fine? Below is the comparison
ESXi 4.1
ESXi 5.5
