In the last two vSphere Upgrade Saga posts, I completed the pre-ESXi upgrades and then the ESXi upgrades. Now it is time for the last bit of the upgrade to happen: specifically, VMware Tools, virtual hardware, and VSAN disk format. There are some new features within the HTML 5 client for vSphere 6.7 that make this …
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My upgrade from ESXi 6.5 to 6.7 did not go as cleanly as I would have liked, for several reasons. However, so far I have found a solution to everything. Here is a recap of my approach.
It was time. I finally found the time to upgrade my environment to vSphere 6.7U1 from vSphere 6.5U1. The vSphere Upgrade Saga continues. No, I did not go to 6.5U2 or even vSphere 6.7, as I was waiting for the tool to allow me to converge my external PSC into an embedded PSC. Most things …
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When I started the LinuxVSM Project, I started it to help myself—to solve a problem caused by data faults and the long tail between updates. Now, with version 5, LinuxVSM has grown steadily. It is no longer a tool just for myself, but also for others. It even has folks verifying it to other operating …
I often have to test code and tools on versions of vSphere and other hypervisors that I do not have deployed on physical hardware. To do so, I use a virtual-in-virtual (VinV) approach. However, it is still not just laying down a hypervisor. There is quite a bit of planning that goes into making a …
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Every month there is at least one conference to go to. Whether that is the smaller InfoSec World, the much larger RSA Conference, or VMworld, conferences are a fact of a technologist’s life. There are as many ways to choose a conference to attend as there are people attending conferences, but there are some tips …
