vSphere Ugrade to v6.x before Veeam installation

[mlaviola]

Hi,
We are a new customer to Veeam and I am planning on installing v9 backup and replication out of the gate. We are on vSphere 5.0 and have about 20 hosts. I have a project in the works to upgrade to vSphere 6.x. I wanted to poll the community to get some thoughts on if I should consider a vSphere upgrade to v6.x before I deploy Veeam 9 backup and replication. Are there any negative implications to getting started with Veeam v9 now on vSphere 5 and then upgrade to vSphere 6 in a few month after Veeam is in place?

[foggy]

Hi Matthew, if you're planning an in-place upgrade of vSphere servers (specifically vCenter), so that all the objects preserve their ID's, you should not encounter any issues with you backups after migration.

[mlaviola]

Thank you for your reply. We are planning on an in-place upgrade for vCenter. I appreciate the feedback.