vSphere 4.1 is Here – Updating VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi Hypervisor to v4.1 with “vihostupdate”

Well I am happy to announce that Something has changed – again! Have you tried to find the VMware vSphere Host Update Utility? It was never downloadable – it was part of the vSphere Client which was bundled with your ESXi Installation.(by the way that has also been removed from the installation and is . . . → Read More: vSphere 4.1 is Here – Updating VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi Hypervisor to v4.1 with “vihostupdate”

vSphere 4.1 is Here – How to: Upgrade to vSphere 4.1 with an existing 64bit vCenter

With the release of vSphere 4.1 comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation to this new version. Because I have been testing the beta for a while now, I couldn´t wait to try it in our new testing environment.

However, there are a few caveats:

VMware released a KB article with the supported . . . → Read More: vSphere 4.1 is Here – How to: Upgrade to vSphere 4.1 with an existing 64bit vCenter