i have vcenter 5.0 running as a VM and SQL 2008 SP3 is running on another machine, now i would like to upgrade the vcenter 5.5 and seems to be the SQL 2008 SP3 is not supported so need to upgrade the SQL as well. Somehow i can not upgrade the current SQL server version so need to move the DB on a new supported DB which is SQL 2008 R2 SP2 or similar
Source Target
5.0 5.5
SQL 2008 SP3 SQL 2008 R2 SP1 or Any supported DB's
Doubt is can i first upgrade the SQL DB from 2008 SP3 to supported version and then upgrade the vcenter , Will that work in that manner. If not what is the best way i can move the vCenter Database and then connect to the upgraded version.
Suppose i am gng to take a back up of my Vcenter DB which is on SQL SP3 and then restore it on a upgraded SQL version say SQL 2008 R2 SP1 on a different machine so in that case how will i upgrade my vcenter to 5.5, like during upgrade can i give the path OR my vcenter 5.0 should also work with newly moved/upgraded DB ??