Tag: VMware

Upgrade to ESXi 6.5 and pre-upgrade checklist

In this document we will be able to follow the steps that will allow us to update our ESXi host to the latest version, the 6.5. See 3 Upgrade Options, A first, Surely the most used by everyone, which is through a package that allows us to update offline, by command line in the fastest way; a second way that is similar to the previous one but online, downloading the updater directly from the VMware website and finally the traditional, The simplest, which is via CD, USB or iLO!

Extending a shared virtual disk into multiple VMs

I leave you this post because a client has asked me to do it on several occasions and so I leave it for you 😉 too If we need to expand a virtual hard drive (Vhd) that is shared across multiple virtual machines, typically for cluster use, we will remember that we have the SCSI controller in Bus Sharing and that the disk is created in Eager Zeroed! We will follow these steps to expand this album.

Migrating from vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance

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!

Migrating from vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance

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!

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!