An administrator has recently upgraded their update manager infrastructure to vSphere 5. Several hosts and virtual machines have not been upgraded yet.
Which vSphere object cannot be upgraded by update manager when running against a legacy host?
A.
virtual machine hardware
B.
ESX host
C.
ESX patches
D.
VMware tools
Explanation:
Page 142 from vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-upgrade-guide.pdf
From my perspective this question is incomplete.
According to the VMware vSphere Update Manager 5.0 Release Notes (in http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-update-manager-50-release-notes.html#upgrade)
=== Begin note ===
Interoperability and Software Requirements
Update Manager can scan and remediate ESX/ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and virtual appliances.
Host patching
ESX/ESXi 3.5
ESX/ESXi 4.x
ESXi 5.0
Host upgrades of ESX/ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.0
Upgrades of VMware Tools and virtual machine hardware for virtual machines
Upgrades of virtual appliances
=== End note ===
Based on this, VUM 5.0 can upgrade VMware Hardware and VMware Tools, can patch ESX and ESXi 3.5 and above, and also can upgrade ESX and ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.0. ESX/ESXi 3.5 cannot be upgraded because will not have the required minimum 350 MB of space in the /boot
partition.
My opinion in the scenario described on this question, probably there are ESX/ESXi3.x and the VMs running on these hosts needs to run a legacy version of VMware Hardware and Tools. Because of this, the VUM cannot upgrade these objects.
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So … just concluding … in my opinion the closest answer is “B”
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Agree with A being the answer. Until the hosts are upgraded to v5, virtual machine hardware v8 is not supported, as indicated by the table in the reference.
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Ryan is right. A it is.
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It’s asking what VUM can’t update, not what a legacy ESX host will run. Also, that charts shows that running VC 5 (which you have to have to run VUM5) can run v4/7/8. It states “legacy host”, so we have to assume 3.X and as “AS” is showing, VUM 5 can only do host upgrades for ESX/i 4. The answer should be B.
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