Continuing the last post, now we will be converging vCenter Server with External PSC to vCenter server with Embedded PSC using vSphere Client.We can still use the scripted procedure which was available in vSphere 6.7 U1 but for the ease of demonstration i am using vSphere 6.7 U2 with vSphere client (GUI). Important Notes and … Read more
In the series of VMware Component upgrade, Next component we are going to reflect on is “vCenter Server 6.5 (vCSA) with External Platform Service Controller (PSC)”. vCenter 6.7 onward, the topology of External PSC is depreciated. Hence we will work on convergence in next post. Final Target topology is depicted below: Current Topology –> Target … Read more
In the series of VMware component upgrade, next component i am upgrading is NSX for vSphere.In future posts, I am planning to cover migration of NSX-V to NSX -T and some use-cases. Current Version of NSX-V -> 6.4.0 Target Version of NSX-V-> 6.4.6 Important notes and prerequisites: If you have a cross-vCenter NSX environment, you … Read more
In my last post, we discussed about “Upgrading vSphere Replication from 6.5 to 8.2”.Next step is to upgrade Site Recovery Manager aka SRM which is relatively longer procedure. To perform any VMware component upgrade, please check the upgrade path suggested by VMware. Highlights: Unsupported upgrade path of SRM are -> 5.8.X to 8.2.X & 6.0.X to … Read more
I am working on a project of VMware Components upgrades, due to which most of future post will have “InterOperability, Backup and Upgrade” as the primary tone. In this post, we are going to show the Supported upgrade procedure of vSphere Replication.While doing my research i found many people have written about upgrade but using … Read more
While preparing for an activity of Storage Controllers replacement by storage admins asked me to provide a list of most active VM’s in a datastore cluster! Whenever such a requirement comes, my first step is to check default dashboards and reports in vROPs. This time i was not so lucky, had to create a custom … Read more