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Update vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

Update vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

As versions of vCenter Server 6.5 are released, admins may be looking to update their environments to leverage the latest functionality and fixes. If you are at that point with your vCenter Server Appliance, don’t sweat the patch process. This update is easily performed using the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) and URL patching. If you are unfamiliar with the VAMI, it is the administrative interface that allows management and monitoring of the vCenter Appliance. If you are all too familiar with…

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VMware Patch Release for ESXi and vCenter 6.5

VMware Patch Release for ESXi and vCenter 6.5

Quick update: VMware released patches for both ESXi and vCenter 6.5 today. There are quite a few fixes we could discuss, but I will concentrate on the highlights and provide a few helpful links. VMware ESXi 6.5, Patch ESXi-6.5.0-20170304001-standard Fixes UNMAP – Automated UNMAP was introduced in 6.5, but has experienced some issues relating to requests not being passed to the storage array; thus, no space reclamation. Cormac Hogan has an in-depth article on this. ESXi SNMP Crash – The ESXi…

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Deploy OVF Template Error – VMware Log Insight

Deploy OVF Template Error – VMware Log Insight

Update: This issue is reportedly fixed in VMware’s latest vCenter 6.5b patch. Recently, while trying to deploy an OVA (VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.3), I received an error stating ‘This version of vCenter Server does not support Deploy OVF Template using this version of vSphere Web Client. To Deploy OVF Template, login with version 6.5.0.0 of vSphere Web Client.’ Here is the catch; I was using the 6.5 vSphere Web Client. After a little research, I came across this KB…

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Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5

Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5

With VMware vSphere 6.5 being about 3 months into its release cycle, a lot of you may be gearing up to upgrade your environment. In this byte, we will go through the upgrade process from 6.0 to 6.5 for the vCenter Server Appliance. Like the 6.0 upgrade, this is a side by side upgrade. Meaning upgrading to 6.5 will be performed in two stages. The initial stage will deploy a new appliance. Followed by the second stage where your data…

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How to Install VMware vCenter Appliance (vCSA) 6.0

How to Install VMware vCenter Appliance (vCSA) 6.0

In this byte, we will go over how to install VMware vCenter Appliance  (vCSA) 6.0 This is a pretty straightforward deployment. To save time make sure your DNS entries are taken care of before the installation (forward and reverse). In a change from previous versions, the vCSA is no longer an OVA. It now comes as an ISO that you can mount to your local computer. Mount the vCSA ISO.