Converged, Hyperconverged Infrastructure & Virtualization

I was pretty surprised to see that there are very few posts on the internet detailing the process of upgrading vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6.0 with an External PSC. so here is my recent experience on how I did it

Environment:

vCenter server 5.5 (Windows)

vCenter SSO 5.5 (Windows)

SQL Server 2012 (Windows)

1. Take snapshots of the vCenter server, vCenter SSO server and SQL server
2. take a backup of the vCenter database in the SQL server
3. mount the “VMware-VIMSetup-all-6.0.0-2562643.iso” to the Windows vCenter SSO 5.5 server
4. Go ahead and run the autorun program and run the vCenter setup program
5. The program will automatically detect the SSO 5.5 in the server and let you know that it will be upgraded to PSC 6.0
6. Click next to continue to go ahead and upgrade the SSO 5.5 to PSC 6.0

This will complete the upgrade process of SSO 5.5 to PSC 6.0

Once this process is complete, we can go ahead and upgrade the vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6.0 as the SSO 5.5 is upgraded to PSC 6.0

This concludes the way in which we can upgrade the vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 using external PSC if there is already an SSO 5.5 server available in the environment.