I'm planning (hoping) to upgrade from vSphere 5.0 Update 3 to vSphere 6.0 Update 1.
I seem to be a little behind the times with still running 5.0, and wondered if anyone else has done this upgrade and would like to share anything about their experience? I am currently reading the various official upgrade guides and KB articles, so I am looking for real world experience, things that "just worked" (hopefully all of it!), things that didn't work and what you did to fix them. Things to consider that might not be emphasised sufficiently in the docs.
I have a single vCenter server (Windows Server 2008 R2) with a SQL 2008 R2 database. I have two vSphere "Datacenters", the first has two clusters with 8 hosts each - each cluster has HA + DRS enabled, the second datacenter just has three unclustered hosts. The vCenter certificate was issued by my AD CA. I have some vDistributed Switches, storage DRS clusters, VUM, and that's about it. Storage is provided by an old EMC Clariion CX4-480 (via FC) and some new Tintri units (NFS).
So there's NO: View, Orchestrator, vShield, vCOps, SRM, etc. etc.
At the moment I'm planning to go for a separate/external Platform Services Controller, and changing the vDS uplinks for the VM networks to LACP (2.x 10Gb each) , likewise the 2 x 10Gb uplinks to the vDS that handles the vMotion and NFS traffic, and the two 1Gb uplinks into the vSwitch that handles the ESXi management traffic. Are there any other changes you'd recommend?
Thanks in advance!