


Upgrading ESXi to Version 8 using Baseline Management Save the image and remediate the cluster. Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager, simply edit the cluster image and select ESXi 8 as the ESXi version. Upgrading ESXi to Version 8 using Image Management Remediating ESXi 6.7 or ESXi 7.0 Hosts Against an ESXi 8.0 Image.Import an ISO Image to the vSphere Lifecycle Manager Depot.For more details, see vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS). Important: After upgrading to vCenter Server 8, you may see vSphere Cluster Service VMs deployed to your clusters. Review these alarms, clear and acknowledge as necessary Note: You may see some alarms due to the vCenter Server services being offline for a small period of time. Verify the upgrade was successful by logging into the vSphere Client and observing that users, permissions, inventory, etc are all correct. The original vCenter Server is shutdown automatically, and the new vCenter Server 8 will adopt the network identity (full-qualified domain name and IP address) of the original vCenter Server.

Expand for video.Ĭomplete stage 2 to transfer the vCenter Server data from the original vCenter Server 7.0 or 6.7 to the new vCenter Server 8. On the Home page, click Upgrade and follow the upgrade wizard to deploy a new vCenter Server 8 with a temporary network identity. For Mac OS, go to the mac subdirectory, and run the Installer.app file.For Linux OS, go to the lin64 subdirectory, and run the installer file.For Windows OS, go to the win32 subdirectory, and run the installer.exe file.In the vCenter Server installer, navigate to the vcsa-ui-installer directory, go to the subdirectory for your operating system, and run the installer executable file. Download the vCenter Server 8 installer media and mount it to a machine that can access the vSphere management network.
