Earlier in this series, I wrote about how after upgrading vCenter Server to v5.1 my backup tools had been unable to connect to vCenter. In that post, I explained how to re-credential servers with the ...

Following on from this thread, I want to upgrade my three vCenter environments from 5.0.0 to 5.0.0 U2. I've never actually upgraded vCenter before (only installed it from scratch a few times), so I've ...

My VMware vSphere Upgrade saga started with my having to upgrade my PDC to support Windows 2008 as I discussed within Upgrading to vSphere – The Saga Starts. The next stage of the saga continues… I am ...

Enterprise virtualization features such as snapshots and clones allow data center managers to test system upgrades prior to production implementation. For example, these tools take the guesswork out ...

Of all the upgrades I have done to date, this was by far the easiest. Perhaps it was practice or even VMware vSphere’s time in market, but the upgrade to vSphere ESXi 5.1 from v4.1 and v5.0 went ...

Last weekend we shutdown our 2 node VMWare ESXi cluster, managed by vCenter Server Appliance 5.0.0.3324 Build 472350 (which uses the embedded DB2 database). There was some building work going on and ...

VMware's release of vSphere 6.7 U1 on Oct. 16, 2018, despite being only an update, was a major event as this version includes a near-feature-complete vSphere Client. For years, VMware has been slowly ...

With VMware vSphere 4.1 update 1 now generally available, what do you need to know about it and how do you upgrade to it? Let's find out. With VMware vSphere 4.1 update 1 now generally available, what ...

An incremental update to the vSphere virtualization platform packs numerous improvements and new features to give IT professionals all the right tools. When we had indications that VMware Inc. was ...