Upgrading Citrix XenServer

UPDATE: This works to upgrade to 6.0
This method works with Latest Feature Pack Release
You can use xenserver 5.6 media for upgradation. While booting from installation media you’ll find following option

upgrade xenserver-5.5
perform clean installation

Here you can choose upgrade xenserver-5.5
Before upgrading pl ensure to take backup of all VMs & host. If there error during installation you may loose running VMs.

Following examples will be helpful for backup & restore.
pool data

xe pool-dump-database file-name=”xen1.pool”
xe pool-restore-database file-name=”xen1.pool”

host data
xe host-backup file-name=”xen1.xbk”
xe host-restore file-name=”xen1.xbk”

vm back
xe vm-export filename=VM.xva vm=”VM”
xe vm-import filename=VM.xva

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