vSphere 5.1 and View 5.1 are finally compatible

October 26, 2012 VMware

As mentioned before, I mentioned vSphere 5.1 currently not compatible with any VMware View version. As of yesterday, VMware has finally released a patch (ESXi510-201210001) to correct the incompatibility issues.

Alternatively you can also download an updated ESXi 5.0 ISO. To download the ISO:

Navigate to the vSphere Download Center.
Click View Download for the VMware ESXi 5.1.0 Installable for your version of ESXi.
On the Product Downloads tab, download VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201210001-838463.x86_64.iso.

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How to upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 to 7.0

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 VMware

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VMware vCenter 7.0 has been released for several months now and figured it was about time I upgraded my home lab to the latest version.

This post will detail all the steps needed to upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 to 7.0 without any issues.

Getting Started

Before beginning, I HIGHLY recommended you first check the VMware Interoperability Matrix before performing any upgrade to check compatibility of other VMware products.

Then go download the VCSA 7.0 ISO if you haven’t already and lets get started with the upgrade!

Fixing, This host currently has no management network redundancy

October 26, 2017February 18, 2018 VMware

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I recently redid my VMware home lab environment and after enabling HA the warning message “This host currently has no management network redundancy” started displaying on each of my ESXi hosts.

This warning happens because in a HA cluster there is a requirement for the management network to have redundant NICs, but in my case I’m using Intel NUCs which only have a single NIC and since this is only a lab I don’t care to see the warning so lets disable it.

VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1b released

June 13, 2014 VMware

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VMware released vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1b today. The release does not bring any new features but instead patches a few bugs and possible security issues such as the heartbleed fix and most recent OpenSSL as mentioned in CVE-2014-0224. vCenter 5.5 Update 1b now includes the OpenSSL library which has been updated to versions openssl-0.9.8za, openssl-1.0.0m, and openssl-1.0.1h.

Easy ESXi 5.5 upgrade via command line

September 23, 2013March 13, 2014 VMware

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ESXi 5.5 was just released general availability (GA) on Sunday (9/22) and I’m itching to upgrade the home lab to run the latest version with all it’s goodies. I wanted to try upgrading my hosts without having to go through the same process that I followed setting up ESXi on the NUC in the first place, injecting custom NIC drivers, etc.

Enter the command line…

Move all VM’s from the host and then put the host into Maintenance Mode.
Go to the Configuration tab > Security Profile and Enable SSH under Services.
Under Firewall, enable httpClient (outbound http).
Open PuTTY (or other SSH client) and SSH into your host.

How to upgrade ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 6.7

August 24, 2018January 1, 2019 VMware

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VMware released ESXi 6.7 a little while ago, but it’s only been here recently have I started deploying it in my home and work lab environments. Below are two ways to easily upgrade your ESXi 6.5 hosts to ESXi 6.7 using the command line or by using the VMware ESXi offline bundle.

Note: As of the time of writing (8/24/2018) there are no supported upgrade paths from ESXi 6.5 U2 to ESXi 6.7.

VMware Octopus wallpaper

May 15, 2012July 3, 2012 VMware