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 ...

SSL certificates took on an important role in vSphere 5.1, and managing the certificates that the vSphere environment required became another challenge that vSphere administrators needed to tackle.

Of all the new features included in vSphere 6.5, the one that will be most useful to small and mid-sized vSphere deployments is vCenter High Availability (VCHA). I was working on VMware Education's ...

The next step of any vSphere upgrade is to upgrade vCenter. However, if you are using vCloud Director the next step would be to upgrade vCloud Director before vCenter. It is crucial at this time to ...

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 ...

There are several reasons to move your VMWare vCenter server to new hardware. You might want to replace an aging machine that has become less stable, or you might want to take advantage of newer ...

The best way to learn about virtualization is with your own lab. When most people think of a lab, they picture a closet housing a group of servers that cost several thousand dollars. While there are ...

With the release of VMware vSphere 5.1, VMware’s product line underwent some naming and positioning changes. In the past, there were two different bare-metal hypervisors, one free and one sold as part ...