Dilpreet & Mohan did a great job laying out the install and upgrade paths to reach vCenter 6.0, whether in Appliance or Windows mode. As I mentioned yesterday, the VMware team is encouraging customers to choose the Appliance (VCSA) moving forward due to increased performance, decreased complexity, and overall conformity. You gain much and lose nothing…except:
vSphere Update Manager (VUM), which will be integrated into VCSA in a 2016 release (Yay!). Presumably this will be vSphere 6.1 as that would put vSphere 6.0 a year old and this landmark milestone is too big (in my opinion) for a mere “Update 2”.
Dilpreet was kind to explain that the update which brings VUM integration will pull the VUM configuration & data from existing VUM (Windows) servers and into the VCSA component. This is great to hear as I was unclear about this walking away from the “Part 2” session yesterday.
Please check out the notes below and remember to pay attention to the order of your upgrades. Reference the KBs mentioned so you’re on a supported model & path.