This post was originally published on this site —As you upgrade your vSphere hosts we generally recommend that you also upgrade VMware Tools in your virtual machines. This can get tricky to manage, especially if you have hosts at different versions of ESXi. To help mitigate this we allow you to store the files on a centralised repository and point the hosts to the relevant location: this process is explained on KB2129825. A walkthrough of this feature is also located here. The updateProductLockerPolicy tool which was introduced in vSphere 6.5 Update Read more […]

This post was originally published on this site —In the previous post about the ESXi network IOchain we explored the various constructs that belong to the network path. This blog post builds on top of that and focuses on the tools for advanced network troubleshooting and verification. Today, vSphere ESXi is packaged with a extensive toolset that helps you to check connectivity or verify bandwidth availability. Some tools are not only applicable for inside your ESXi box, but also very usable for the physical network components involved in the network Read more […]

This post was originally published on this site —We are proud to announce we have two new feature walkthroughs available which cover the vCenter Server upgrade from vSphere 6.5 to vSphere 6.7. Introduction Located on our vSphere Central site we have created two new feature walkthroughs focused on upgrading your vCenter Server from version 6.5 to version 6.7.   The first walkthrough covers Upgrading vCenter Server 6.5 to vCenter Server 6.7 using our vCenter Server Appliance CLI. Access the feature walkthrough for Upgrading vCenter Server Read more […]

This post was originally published on this site —VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering jointly developed by AWS and VMware delivering a highly scalable, secure and innovative service that allows organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud running on next-generation Amazon Elastic . The post VMware Cloud appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog. Read more […]

This post was originally published on this site —In this blog post, we go into the trenches of the (Distributed) vSwitch with a focus on vSphere ESXi network IOChain. It is important to understand the core constructs of the vSphere networking layers for i.e. troubleshooting connectivity issues. In a second blog post on this topic, we will look closer into virtual network troubleshoot tooling. IOChain The vSphere ESXi network IOChain is a framework that provides the capability to insert functions into the network data-path regardless of the Read more […]

This post was originally published on this site —The vSphere Upgrade Blog Series began in July and ran through September 2018. It provided customers with screen-by-screen guidance from start to finish of a vSphere Upgrade in a six part blog series. Since each part of the blog series was posted over a few months, it’s common for steps or posts to be missed during that time frame. Today I am happy to share that I have consolidated these blog posts into one main post as a wrap-up. Below you will find a short snip-it from each of the six parts Read more […]

This post was originally published on this site —I am proud to announce availability of the new VMware vSphere eBook Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.7, authored by Nigel Hickey and David Stamen. This is a free resource to assist customers upgrading to vSphere 6.7. The eBook further builds on the foundational guide Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.5 by Emad Younis which has been widely adopted when preparing an upgrade to vSphere 6.5. Our new eBook is complete with new information and scenarios for planning and executing your vSphere 6.7 Read more […]

This post was originally published on this site —Today at the VMworld Europe Day 1 General Session, we announced the Project Dimension Beta Program. We’re really excited to drive a deeper working relationship with our most passionate customers for Project Dimension. But before I talk more about the Beta Program, let’s take a step back and look at what’s been happening with Project Dimension since VMworld 2018 US. A quick recap: we launched Project Dimension in Las Vegas in late August to much excitement and interest from our customers. Read more […]

This post was originally published on this site —VMware is deprecating the external Platform Services Controller deployment model. In a future vSphere release (not update release), there will no longer be an option to deploy the external PSC The Platform Services Controller (PSC) was first introduced in vSphere 6.0. It served a couple of purposes. First, it was to simplify the distributed vCenter Server deployment model. vSphere 5.1 allowed core vCenter Server services to run on separate nodes. This increased the number of vCenter Server nodes Read more […]

This post was originally published on this site —Back in March I released the vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide (a.k.a “The SCG”). At that time, I went in to detail on more than just the guide. I covered the topic of why some guidelines are removed or changed. I also covered how more settings were set to “secure by default” now and showed the progress between the 6.5 guide and the 6.5 Update 1 guide. Today I’m happy to announce the release of the vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide. And Read more […]