Hi,
I want to upgrade out vCenter 4.1 to vCenter 5.1 but the problem is, vCenter is currently installed on xp 64bit.
I have setup a new VM running windows 2008 R2 and installed vCenter 5.1 but am stuck on how to migrate the data over.
I could not link the vCenter servers because it said that 4.1 was not compatible with 5.1
I have tried a full backup and restore of the DB using SQL management studio but now the vCenter services won't start on the 2008 server.
I'm quite new to vCenter/vSphere so I'm not sure how to go about migrating the current configuration.
I had a look around and most topics talk about inplace upgrades, migration tools etc, but these don't seem to work with XP x64.
Please help.
p.s. Our hosts are currently esxi 4.1. I wanted to upgrade vCenter before I upgraded the hosts. Is this the best way?