We have learned some good networking and troubleshooting commands in the first part our post – ESXi Commands List – networking commands. Today, we’ll add some more, and those ones will be especially useful for upgrading and patching ESXi when dealing with firmware version and drivers of your pNICs. In fact, there are two one-liners only…. I […]
How to create a USB media with ESXi 6.5 Installation
A few days back we learned about How to upgrade our ESXi 6.0 host via ISO or CD-ROM. Not every server today has a CD-ROM drive, so as an alternative, USB flash drive is usually used. But you need to prepare this USB media and create an installation USB stick first. Today we’ll show you […]
How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 via CLI [On Line]
This is a follow-up learning post on a post we did recently, where we have upgraded an ESXi host via an ISO image. Today, we’ll learn how to upgrade ESXi 6.0 via Command line interface (CLI). The process of ESXi upgrade has been already documented on this blog, for previous releases (ESXi 5.x > ESXi 6.0), […]
How to Migrate Windows based vCenter Server 6.0 to vCenter 6.5 (In-Place)
I have already done a post where I was migrating a Windows based vCenter server 6.0 to VMware VCSA 6.5 here (With video). You could see that during the migration the old vCenter has been automatically shut down after everything was copied to the new VCSA 6.5. Today, we will conduct a test migration (just for fun) […]
How to Migrate Windows Based vCenter to VCSA 6.5 [Lab]
And another lab post today. Today we will migrate our Windows based vCenter server 6.0U2 to VCSA 6.5. VMware worked hard on this one so I’m wondering whether I’ll experience problems or not. It is my main lab vCenter server which historically runs on Windows, but in each major version (5.0, 5.5 and 6.0) I […]
How to Install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation [LAB]
This is lab time -:). Normally you don’t do that on your production deployment. This is a guide on How to install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation and see the different configuration options within the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. Yes, As you know, we have VMware vSphere 6.5 in GA state (General Availability), […]
How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 via ISO
One of the methods of upgrading VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 is via ISO (or CD-Rom). Most of you probably don’t use much CD-ROMs and CDs, but servers, especially in small client’s environments usually don’t have KVM, iPMI, ILO, Drac… so one of the options is still to upgrade via CD-ROM. I also recorded a short […]
VMware vSphere 6.5 Released – Start Your Download Engines
VMware vSphere 6.5 Released today!!! Start your download engines. The release brings all the new features that have been announced, plus even one which has been only a tech Preview. It is the vSphere Predictive DRS, which uses integration between vROPs where vROPs calculates and predict VM CPU and RAM usage. The predictions are based on […]
VMware vSAN 6.5 Licensing PDF
There has been new VMware vSAN 6.5 Licensing paper released. As the offer evolved and the 6.5 of vSAN (now with small “v” have you noticed ?) product release is imminent, VMware is taking care of pushing the necessary information out. As you know, VMware VSAN 6.5 has new technical features too. The 6.5 release […]
How to Hot-Clone a VM and upload to Ravello Cloud
When willing to upload a VM to Ravello cloud, you might want not to shut down your production VM, because as you know, you only can upload VMs that are not running. What to do? There is a way to do it and I’ll show you how. Basically you’ll need VMware Converter Standalone and clone […]
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