Hi,
Just moved into a VMWare environment for the first time and need to upgrade to vsphere 6.5. From what I've seen so far I've been able to login to a 5.5 web client but can't find a vCenter server. If I https to the virtualisation host I get the following splash screen:
The "Download vCentre" link takes me to a dead page on the VMWare site with a msg "We are not able to process your request at this time. Try again later." My new company didn't pay anything for the esxi setup a few years ago, told me it was freeware. It's sitting on a Dell PowerEdge T320 box with iDRAC 7 Version1.57.57, and not doing a lot. Just a handful of windows server 2008-2016 VMs and 3 Lync 2013 VMs.
The issue: I'd like to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 essentials (including an esxi upgrade and vCenter install), just not sure where to start. If I can't run the vCenter server on the host, it will have to be on a server in AWS. I'd obviously like to upgrade in place so that I can migrate VMs across easily, if possible. Am I correct in assuming my organisation might not have a vCenter server and could just have a 5.5 hypervisor sitting on bare metal? If so, where do I begin? I couldn't find any useful upgrade info in the Dell guide: http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/vmware-esxi-6.5.x_user%27s%20guide_en-us.pdf
This looks like great gear and I'm pushing to get up to speed fast, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Scott