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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have written a few articles previously on ESXi on Arm (located here, here and here). In those articles, I covered everything from going over what you need to install ESXi on a Raspberry Pi 4 B ...

To move on with the next phase of my migration, I needed a diagram from the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Navigator (VIN) showing the way vCenter is a central connectivity point for any VMware vCloud ...

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 ...

VMware has updated third-party libraries and components used by its vSphere server virtualization platform to integrate security patches released in recent months. The company released vCenter Server ...

Over the last 10 years, server virtualization has solidified itself as a key component to shrinking the hardware footprint of the modern data center. However, what hasn’t decreased during this process ...