VMware View 5.1 Upgrade Process

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Samir Roshan — 13 Comments ↓

I was working with one of my clients on a VDI project recently , the deployment was done some time back with VMware View 4.6 and vSphere 4.1.

With the release of VMware View 5.1 and vSphere 5.0 my client decided to upgrade his VDI environment from View 4.6 and vSphere 4.1 to View 5.1 and vSphere 5.0 U1. To make the process a little easier and to fullfill the requirement of change management I simply created a mindmap using Mindjet MindManager software. This gave the visibility of steps to the management and also to the people who were suppose to perform the upgrade.

It was critical for the upgrade to go smooth as this was a production environment and any missing step would have caused a disaster. I am attaching the jpeg in this post , if any body is interested in the map itself drop me a note and I will email across.

VMware View 5.1 Upgrade Path

13 thoughts on “VMware View 5.1 Upgrade Process”

Amar Varude on July 9, 2012 at 11:39 am said:

Could you please post a bigger diagram? its not very readable

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kooltechies on July 11, 2012 at 11:01 am said:

Hi Amar,
I have made this 10% bigger, more than this will cause problems to the page layout. You can always right click and save which will be clear.

Thanks,

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Kevin Johnson on January 24, 2013 at 11:22 am said:

Do you still have this available? We are just getting ready to upgrade from View 4.6 to 5.11

Kevin Johnson

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- Samir Roshan on January 25, 2013 at 11:40 am said:
  
  I haven’t made any new version of this yet. Hope to put something on view 5.1.2.
  
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Jason on January 31, 2013 at 7:28 am said:

Very nice! I’m preparing for an identical upgrade – could I get a copy of the full map? Thanks!

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- Samir Roshan on January 31, 2013 at 12:35 pm said:
  
  Sure will send it across to your email.
  
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Ricky Lim on February 18, 2013 at 10:59 pm said:

Hi,

We are upgrading view to 5,1.1 with vsphere 5.0U2.
Do you happen to have the guide for such upgrading? I will love to cross check with our plans.

Thanks.

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Brian on February 25, 2013 at 8:42 am said:

I’m very close to doing a 4.6 to 5.1 upgrade as well. Could I also get a full copy of the map?

Thanks!

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J on May 22, 2013 at 6:09 am said:

I’m also preparing for an identical upgrade – could I get a copy of the full map? Thanks!

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- Samir Roshan on May 23, 2013 at 4:57 am said:
  
  Sure I will send across to your email.
  
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Lee on July 11, 2013 at 3:39 am said:

I’m working on Upgrade view 4.6 to 5.1 for next month, It will be real helpful with this map. please email me a copy. thanks a million

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Ranbir on July 25, 2013 at 4:12 am said:

I’m working on Upgrade view 4.6 to 5.1 for next month, It will be real helpful with this map. please email me a copy. thanks a Lot…

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Nicolas Lemarchand on October 2, 2013 at 7:43 am said:

hello

I’m working on the same migration scenario. and this is exatly what i was looking for

Can you send me the full map ?

Thanks a lot

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