One of the many new features that the version brought 5 VMware Mirage was Windows support 8 and Windows 8.1 as a centralizing desktop and at the same time gives us the possibility to migrate Windows systems 7 to Windows 8/8.1 in a very simple and very fast way. In this document we will see how to deploy a corporate OS layer with Windows 8.1 to a Windows 7 and upgrade your system while maintaining your user data layer!
In this document we will see how to update the infrastructure of our Active Directory to the latest version, Windows Server 2012, this process is much simpler than in previous versions since the promotion process will prepare the D.A. and install necessary requirements,
Una vez ya tengamos nuestros escritorios centralizados, si tenemos en la organización Windows XP y queremos migrar nuestros equipos a Windows 7 de una forma totalmente rápida y automatizada, manteniendo además las configuraciones de los usuarios, así como sus aplicaciones y además aprovisionandole nuevas apps, podremos aprovecharnos de VMware Mirage!
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,
If we ever need to migrate the database from our Symantec Backup Exec to another database server, or even to get it from SQL Express itself to a network DB server we can follow this simple doc, it will be enough to run the 'Exec Backup Utility', we will indicate the new destination of the DB and restart the Bexec services.
To continue our migration to vSphere 5, once we already have the VMware vCenter server on the version 5, we have updated to VMware Update Manager 5 and all our ESXi hosts are already running the ESXi hypervisor 5, we will be able to upgrade the VMware Tools to the virtual machines as well as then upgrade the virtual hardware version of the version 4 or 7 to the version 8. We can do it manually VM by VM or automate it with Update Manager and update it in our environment in an orderly manner.
This will be the process of upgrading our hosts to the new VMware vSphere environment 5, we will be able to migrate ESX hosts 3.5, ESX 4.0 and ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 and upgrade from ESXi 3.5, ESXi 4.0 and ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5 automatically, ordered and managed; distributing the ESXi base image 5 on any of them keeping their settings. To do this, we will have to rely on VMware Update Manager, This document shows the steps we will need to update our hosts to the latest version.
In this document we will try to see how to upgrade our vCenter server to the vSphere version 5, We will see all the possible ways to get to this new version, all this will logically depend on the environment we have; We can directly upgrade all the modules on the same server or migrate everything to a new server.
In this document we will look at one of the ways to update our ESXi 4.x hosts (we could also migrate from ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.0 and ESX(i) 3.5 to ESXi 5), it will be in a manual/interactive way by entering the ESXi cd/dvd/usb 5.0 on the ESX host itself(i) 4.x. This is one of the simplest ways for smaller environments, In future documents we will see other forms of updates. Prior to the upgrade we will have verified that our hosts support the new hypervisor using Agent Pre-upgrade check,
If we need to migrate a Citrix Metaframe/XenApp environment to XenApp 6 we can follow the following document: HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=4022. But sometimes we have the need to not bring all the configuration and only bring the applications, or the policies…
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