Software life-cycle is incredibly important in every company and environment. As you probably know Microsoft finished support of Windows Server 2003 14 of July. After that you need extended support which costs a lot of money per server. If you want to avoid situations where your software is no longer support you have to invest time and money into upgrades.
In the second part of series about upgrading VMware ESXi 5.* to 6.0 I will cover esxcli upgrade.
In this post I will show you how easy it is to upgrade VMware ESXi Server from version 5.* to 6.0.
Recently I was “playing” a bit with Windows Server 2008 R2 Core VMware Tools and Virtual Hardware upgrade from version 3.5 to 4.1. Migration went fine from one environment to another, but the rest went totally wrong. I got immediately BSOD - Blue Screen Of Death.
My patient was Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Active Directory domain controller with database on separate disk.