When migrating to VMware vSphere 6.5, we have the possibility to decide if we want to continue with vCenter Server installed under a Windows Server, or leverage and migrate to Linux with the vCenter Server Appliance. In this document we will see the advantages and how to proceed!
With this great tool from VMware Labs, we will be able to migrate our vCenter server installed on Windows to the VMware vCenter Appliance linux appliance, will migrate the SQL Server database to vPostgres and all major services, interesting, isn't it? We will finally be able to easily migrate vCenter from Windos to Linux, with the savings that come with it on licenses!
With this great tool from VMware Labs, we will be able to migrate our vCenter server installed on Windows to the VMware vCenter Appliance linux appliance, will migrate the SQL Server database to vPostgres and all major services, interesting, isn't it? We will finally be able to easily migrate vCenter from Windos to Linux, with the savings that come with it on licenses!
In this document we will see how we can easily and quickly change the certificates assigned to our VMware vCenter server, Not only that, since vSphere 6.0 Certificate Manager is the new VMware tool with which we can perform any management we need with certificates in vSphere!!!
If we have a vSphere 5.x platform and we want to migrate to the 6 vSphere, we can start with the vCenter Server, This document shows the steps to follow in an environment with a Windows-based server with SQL Server database,
In this document, we'll look at the first step of migrating to VMware vSphere 6, we will update our vCenter server, in this case we will update the Linux-based appliance that we have in our organization (VCSA), which must be a version 5.1 U3 or 5.5. We'll follow these simple steps to update you to the 6.
We already know that the collection of logs in our systems is essential to know the health of the state or to know possible problems, vCenter Log Insight is a log manager that allows us to automate the collection of logs and analyze the information from our vSphere system in a very simple way.
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.
Well, Another way to upgrade to the vSphere version 5.5 will be to upgrade our vCenter Server (Windows-based), later we will update Update Manager and with it the hosts in an orderly way (to put an end to VMTools in virtual machines and raise vHD if interested). This is usually found in somewhat more complex environments, where neither vCSA nor update management is used.
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.
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