The JSON prompts for information such as thin provisioning, deployment size, inventory name, ssh status, temporary IP information and which user options you wish to migrate. We recommend using core as it will just move the configuration and inventory. The next section covers configuring the vCenter Server Appliance 6.7. When upgrading from vSphere 6.5 to vSphere 6.7 the upgrade is not done in place, we deploy a brand new vCenter Server 6.7 and import the configuration from the vCenter Server 6.5 appliance. This will ask for for information on where you want to deploy the new vCenter Server Appliance 6.7. Here you will enter in the hostname, username, password, deployment network, datacenter, datastore, vm folder and cluster for the destination vCenter Server.
The first section we will look at is the section for the destination vCenter Server (VC). Here is an example of the JSON we will use, it is to upgrade an embedded vCenter Server 6.5 to vCenter Server 6.7. When looking at this template first it may seem overwhelming but do not worry we will cover each section in more depth. To access the CLI JSON templates we first need to navigate to our vCenter Server Appliance ISO and browse to the vcsa-cli-installer folder. Within this folder will be a folder called templates, and then we will drill down to the upgrade template for vcsa6.5. Once here you can see there are different templates for Embedded and External Deployments as well as if you will deploy your new VCSA to an ESXi host or VC. You can read more about the JSON configuration file within our documentation.
#Hit local vcenter download how to#
This section will cover how to prepare your JSON configuration file for CLI based upgrades. In order to use the vCenter Server Appliance CLI you must use the supplied JSON templates. Prepare Your JSON Configuration File for CLI Upgrade should be used to check for supported upgrade paths within vCenter Server and other VMware products.
#Hit local vcenter download update#
You cannot currently upgrade from vSphere 6.5 Update 2d to vSphere 6.7.
Prior to upgrading your vCenter Server we should make sure we have a supported upgrade path. This walkthrough will educate you on how to use the VCSA CLI installer to upgrade an Embedded vCenter Server from vSphere 6.5 to vSphere 6.7 Upgrading vCenter Server 6.5 to vCenter Server 6.7 using VCSA CLI