How long is the update process going from 3.5 to 3.5 u4?

Hi all

Pretty much the topic. We have three IBM blades to upgrade. I want to do this on a weeknight, but am concerned that I should maybe push it off to a weekend. Anything I should be aware of? I have updated the vcenter, and plan on using the update plug-in, unless that is a bad plan.

Thanks!

John

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RTmarc

I haven't seen any of the updates last longer than an hour except for the upgrade to VI3.5 to vSphere which is a little more extensive process.

But, I'm going to assume you are using centralized storage since you are in a blade environment. Best bet is to VMotion the hosts off of a single host, place in maintenance mode, push update, bring back online (remove from maintenance mode), and repeat the process for the other two hosts. If you have enough resources on the entire box, you shouldn't see any downtime whatsoever. Just in case, you can shut non-critical servers down during the process.