upgrade – vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)

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

vSphere Upgrade Planning…

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.

VCP6 VITA VMware

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

VCP6-DCV Delta Study – Section 4 – Objective 4.2

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

VCP6 vHersey VITA VMware

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

VCP6-DCV Delta Study – Section 4 – Objective 4.1

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.

vHersey VMware

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

vCenter Server Database Upgrade Hangs

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).