Appendix D: vCloud Director Upgrade Considerations : Phase 1 Process : Pre-Upgrade Considerations : Post-Upgrade Considerations
   
Post-Upgrade Considerations
After a successful upgrade of the vCloud environment, the following guidelines lists post-upgrade considerations.
Table 29. Post-Upgrade Considerations
#
Component
Consideration
Resource
1
Local Datastores
VCD 5.1 automatically adds local datastores currently presented to ESXi hosts. Disable these datastores from VCD to prevent local datastores from being used by VCD.
vCloud Administrator
2
Storage Profiles
All datastores that were used by VCD 1.5 are placed into the * (Any) Storage Profile. VMware recommends that this not be changed at this stage.
Storage Profiles do need to be configured in vCenter 5.1 before they can be used in VCD.
vCloud Administrator
vSphere Administrator
3
Upgrade VMRC
VCD 5.1 requires a reinstallation of the VMRC plug-in.
vCloud VMRC Users