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vSphere Upgrade Saga: vRealize Suite, et al.
VMware vRealize Suite products have been upgraded to version 8.0. These major updates forced an update of my entire management portfolio for vSphere. I ended up upgrading not just vRealize Suite, but also NSX-V, vCenter, Horizon View, and my Unified Access Gateways (UAGs). This vSphere Upgrade Saga was a comprehensive update of all subsystems.
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vSphere Upgrade Saga: 6.7 Update Does Not Happen
My latest vSphere 6.7 upgrade issues were troublesome, frustrating, and problematic. VMware Update Manager (VUM) would not update a host. I tried to do an update many ways at many times, but it always showed as out of compliance even though the version of ESXi installed was the most recent version. VUM was broken. Or …
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vSphere Upgrade Saga: PowerCLI 10
All the install instructions for the latest VMware PowerCLI say to use the Install-Module cmdlet. Unfortunately, on stock 2012R2, this cmdlet does not exist. Therefore, getting to the latest PowerCLI is nearly impossible. There are, however, several solutions.
vSphere Upgrade Saga: Upgrading NSX-V
I use VMware NSX-V to provide security services for my virtual environment: edge gateway and distributed firewall. These services do not require the software-defined networking features to be enabled. At least not yet. That could change. Given my use for security, upgrading NSX-V is important to my environment. Here are the steps I follow when …