vCloud Director was one of the easiest upgrades but still required some VMware Knowledge Base articles to complete. As always before you do anything you need to “Read the Fine Manual”. One misstep may mean starting all over again. Read More
vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading to vCNS 5.1
vCNS 5.1 replaces vShield 5.1, and if you do not add new nodes during your installation, you can easily perform all upgrades without removing any components of vShield. vCNS upgrades will upgrade all components of vShield. Read More
vSphere upgrade saga: vCenter 5.1
The next step of any vSphere upgrade is to upgrade vCenter. However, if you are using vCloud Director the next step would be to upgrade vCloud Director before vCenter. It is crucial at this time to “Read The Fine Manual”. There are quite a few caveats and requirements for moving to vCenter 5.1, and if …
vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading HPSIM
The first part of any hypervisor upgrade is to ensure that your existing hardware is supported. Part of that determination is what firmware levels are supported for your compute devices as well as necessary firmware for networking, fibre, blade chassis, etc. Read More
vSphere upgrade saga: Getting all the bits
The VMware Enterprise Plus upgrade to vCloud Suite Standard would give me the benefits of being able to make use of vCloud as well as vCNS products in my environment. But before I started the install I had to plan the install, and this produced a long list of software to gather and download. read …
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vSphere upgrade saga: Fixing VMware View
I recently had an issue where my VMware View instances ceased to talk to my active directory server. As such, I thought they needed to be recomposed, but I also had to upgrade the VMs with a bunch of patches. So being the smart guy I am, I deleted the View desktop VMs and started …