topic Upgrading ESXi on BE6K from 5.0 U1 to version 6 in IP Telephony and Phones

Upgrading ESXi on BE6K from 5.0 U1 to version 6

johnsnave1 — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:50:25 GMT

Hi,

I have a customer with existing BE6K servers with ESXi version 5.0 u1 who has identified a need to upgrade to version 6 for continued support.

Is there a step by step guide for this process and specifically to ESXi version 6? Also, what are the licensing implications with VMWare in going from version 5 to 6?

Many thanks, John.

There is plenty of

Chris Deren — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:07:23 GMT

There is plenty of documentation/videos/etc on the web and on VMware portal that you can find and which will walk you step by step, and there are few different procedures, but in a nutshell these upgrades are very straight forward.

You will require upgraded license for ESXi.

Also, make sure your application versions are compatible with ESXi 6.0. For example CUCM needs to be on version 9.1+ to be supported:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/uc_system/virtualization/virtualization-cisco-unified-communications-manager.html

Thanks. It was confirmation

johnsnave1 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:57:01 GMT

Thanks. It was confirmation of the licsensing that was my main query.