VMware has ended general support for vSphere version 5.5 on September 19th 2018 and suggested to upgrade existing versions to v6.5. Today we will look at how to migrate existing vCenter v5.5 instanceto v6.5. I have chosen to migrate from a windows vCenter to a vCenter appliance since those are the popular/preferred installations of their respective versions. First, as usual we need to download the vCenter Server Appliance installation binary from my.vmware.com. Once you have complete your download, mount the ISO image and then navigate to the mounted CDROM. From there copy the folder named “migration assistant” into your vCenter 5.5 Server. After copy operation completed, navigate inside “migration assistant”…
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Upgrade vSphere Environment Part 1 – Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance to v6.7
Currently, we have deployed a vSphere environment with one vCenter Server appliance v6.5 with external PSC and 3 ESXi 6.5 hosts. VMware has released the latest upgrade for vSphere platform on April 2018. So let’s upgrade our environment to the version 6.7 as well. In this post we will discuss about the method of upgrading vCenter server and we will upgrade ESXi hosts later in a separate post. You should always upgrade vCenter server before upgrading ESXi hosts as vCenter cannot manage hosts which are higher in version. Major version upgrades to vCenter appliance can be consider as a migration as well. Since we have to deploy new VCSA and…
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Install & Configure: VMware vCenter Server 6.5 with External PSC
Now we have multiple ESXi hosts installed and configured in our environment. Managing those ESXi hosts individually through host web client or vSphere legacy client can be a tedious task. Also you are missing features like vSphere HA, DRS, VM cloning and template management. Solution to all those problems is installing an vCenter server to centralize management of ESXi hosts. Now let’s install and configure VMware vCenter server v6.5. You can download a trial version of vCenter Server from my.vmware.com. Since the vSphere version 5.0 VMware offered an appliance version for vCenter but windows version had more capabilities and features. But from version 6.0 and 6.5 VMware has put more…
