Upgrade de host VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 a 6.0

In this document, we'll look at an easy way to upgrade a VMware ESXi host to the new version 6, We will upgrade the host in-place, First with the local media (DVD/USB) and graphic installation, then using CLI remotely with the depot file and we will finalize the document seeing how to revert the update if necessary!

Upgrade ESXi hosts to 5.5 with Update Manager

Continuing to upgrade your environment to vSphere 5.5 with Update Manager, after upgrading vCenter Server and other components, the next step will be the upgrade of the ESXi hosts to the version 5.5. As we saw in a previous document, we can also perform the update manually. We will be able to directly migrate the ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.5 or upgrade the ESXi 4.x or 5.x directly.

Upgrading Hosts to VMware ESXi 5.5 manually

In this second document migrating our virtual infrastructure to a vSphere environment 5.5, We will look at the steps to take in case of a manual update, where we first saw how to upgrade the vCenter Server (standalone o appliance) and then we'll update the hosts to the 5.5. As we have already seen, here we have the news that VMware presented for this new version.

Hypervisor comparison – VMUG Galicia

Good morning everyone! today we will give a talk for the community of VMware Galicia users in Santiago de Compostela; where we will compare different hypervisors and see a little about their differences or their evolutions. I wanted to share the presentation with you all, I leave you a PDF link to read and another with the presentation as such (for Windows or Mac). By the way, I share the presentation with the crack Miguel Angel Alonso of JMG!!!

VMware WSX

A tool that can help us simplify our connectivity to our virtual infrastructure is VMware WSX, This small web server, it will allow us to connect from any device with an HTML5-compatible browser to our virtual machines, either to manage it or to VDI desktops in the case of our end users.

VMware vSphere Health Check Report

These weeks I had to perform several tasks on a vSphere 4.x infrastructure, One of them was to document and export all its configuration, for this I used VMware vSphere Health Check Report 5.0.2, What is amazing when it comes to making this type of inventories couples therapy los angeles ! Nothing, I publish the two steps that must be done to get a complete report as well as a quick example!

I/O Analyzer

In this document we will review a utility from VMware Labs that will help us test our storage system, under a virtual appliance called VMware IO Analyzer. This simple appliance will show us performance graphs at the VM and host level, will use Iometer for this purpose & This is top,

ESX System Analyzer

ESX System Analyzer is a virtual appliance that will allow us to obtain detailed reports of our current ESX infrastructure, to see if we could migrate to a vSphere environment 4.1 or 5.0 (with ESXi hosts, Of course). These reports, presented in spreadsheets, show us a full host-level analysis, VMs and datastores,

Virtualize VMware ESXi 5.0

If we need to set up a lab or need to test any new configuration before applying it to our customers' hosts, we will be able to virtualize VMware ESXi 5 and run virtual machines under these virtual hosts. In this document we will see how to dispose of this, in addition to being able to configure an EVC cluster with virtual hosts to be able to mount Storage Appliance or whatever we need,