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Using VM Storage Profiles – Profile-Driven Storage

One of VMware's new storage features in vSphere 5 en Profile-Driven Storage, By configuring a series of profiles and labels we can define the characteristics of our datastores. We will be able to define our warehouses according to their performance, availability, value… to later store the virtual machines in them depending on the quality of service that we want/must offer. When creating a VC, migrating it from datastore or cloning it, vCenter will show us the compatible datastores where we will store the VM, thus avoiding any human error,

Using Datastore Cluster on VMware vSphere 5

It is one of the new features of vSphere 5, It is a pool of datastores that will help us to manage the datastores together, always obtaining the best result to locate a virtual machine and thus have a higher performance at the disk level since it will always offer us recommendations to choose the lightest datastore. It will also analyze and generate recommendations for moving virtual machines between the different datastores in the cluster.

Using vSphere 5 Image Builder

VMware vSphere Image Builder will allow us to create a hypervisor with the drivers, Extensions… that we need on our hosts when installing or upgrading them, Customized therefore our installer for ESXi 5, is also a necessary component for Auto Deploy.

Upgrade from VMware vCenter to vCenter 5 (and its components)

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.

Installing VMware vSphere Update Manager 5.0

In this document, we will see the installation of the VMware Update Manager component in vSphere 5, it will allow us to keep our VMware virtual environment updated, in this new version, only ESXi servers and VMware virtual appliances with their latest updates and upgrades will be supported, previously, we could also apply patches to Microsoft virtual machines & Linux. After installing the service, each client connecting to the vCenter will need to download and enable the Plugin to manage VUM,

Installing VMware vCenter 5 and VMware vSphere Client 5

As we mentioned before, little by little we will be showing the new features of VMware vSphere 5, but first we must meet the requirements of these, in this document we will look at the installation of VMware vCenter Server & vCenter Client as well as its requirements,

Preparing a USB flash drive to install VMware ESXi 5

In this document, we'll look at how to prepare a flash drive or USB device for a VMware ESXi installation 5.0 from it, This procedure is performed from a Linux machine, since to do it from a Windows machine it can be done the same as before (HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=3384).