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vSphere Upgrade Planning…

April 12, 2019April 12, 2019 Hersey 0 Comments esxi, HCL, upgrade, vcenter, vmware, vsphere

With the release of vSphere 6.7 Update 2 (GA today and ready for download) folks are chomping at the bit to upgrade in order to take advantage of some of the great new features which are available in this release. There is a lot of information out there on how to upgrade vSphere so in this post I wanted to provide an overview of planning an upgrade of a vSphere (vCenter and ESXi) environment.

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VCP6-DCV Delta Study – Section 4 – Objective 4.2

May 21, 2015 Hersey 0 Comments upgrade, VCA, vcenter, VCP6, VCSA

This post covers Section 4, Upgrade a vSphere Deployment, Objective 4.2, Perform vCenter Server Upgrades of the VCP6 Delta Beta Exam.

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VCP6-DCV Delta Study – Section 4 – Objective 4.1

May 11, 2015 Hersey 1 Comment esxi, upgrade, VCP6, VUM

This post covers Section 4, Upgrade a vSphere Deployment, Objective 4.1, Perform ESXi Host and Virtual Machine Upgrades of the VCP6 Delta Beta Exam.

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vCenter Server Database Upgrade Hangs

April 22, 2013 Hersey 0 Comments database, sql, upgrade, vcenter

I created a backup of the original vCenter database and it was giant, a little over 15GB. I thought that was odd but for whatever reason I did not really dig into it much (until after the upgrade failed later in the story).