Reading Time: < 1 minute As report on tte “Product End of Life” page on VMware site, for Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 (aka ESX/ESXi 3.5 and vCenter Server 2.5) both the General Availability and the End of Availability are expired. But some customers still have this product, so VMware has releases some new patches:
Reading Time: 2 minutes One possible issue after a vSphere 5 upgrade using an in-place upgrade of vCenter Server could appear when you forget to remove the Converter Enterprise plugin (and/or the Guided Consolidation plugin). As you know some products has been removed from vSphere 5, and their plugins may remain in a “orphan” state. The result of this issue is that you will have a “broken” plugins list (with some plugins that are no more available) and also a wrong vCenter health status, due to some services that are no more existing:
Reading Time: 2 minutes To close the series of post on the vSphere upgrade path to version 5 I will make a few final considerations: As written several time, check the hardware and software HCL before start the migration. The HCL may change from the beta release (where, for example, there was’t any SQL Express 2005 support) but also from one week to another (for example, some weeks the Dell PoverVault MD3x00/MD3x00i were not yet included). Actually most additional software are already compliant with vSphere, or with new version (like View 5) or with simple patch. Remember that vSphere […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes In a vSphere 5 upgrade path, the vSphere part of the upgrade process is the simples part and the order is the same of previous upgrade: first the vCenter Server (that can handle new and old hosts), then VUM (if you want to use it to upgrade the hosts), then the hosts, then the VMware Tools of the VMs and finally, if needed the VMFS5 of the datastores and the virtual hardware of the VMs. vCenter Server The upgrade of the vCenter Server is really simple and if you start from a version 4.1 you […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The upgrade path to vSphere 5 is well described in the specific guide (vSphere Upgrade Guide) and in the vSphere Upgrade Best Practices white paper.. In some cases an in-place upgrade can be applied with the advantage to require less time and to keep all (or most) of the settings and configurations. For example, a vCenter Server 4.1 can be updated to the 5.0 version (the requirements of the two versions are quite the same) or an old ESXi can be updated to ESXi 5. But in most cases, also when the in-place upgrade is […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute After the View and vSphere clients for Apple iOS, let’s see some clients for the Android devices: vmwClient: for managment of VMWare infrastructure from Android devices. iVMControl: same of the iOS version see in the previous post. VMware View for Android: this is the official View client from VMware, with full PCoIP, Security Server, Android 3 (Honeycomb) support… See also this review and the demo. Wyse PocketCloud: View client (but not only), does not support the PCoIP protocol.
Reading Time: < 1 minute For the View client for iPad there is any other alternative application (at least with PCoIP support), but for the vSphere client for iPad there are some other applications that can work as well of the official VMware application… With the advantage to do not require any silly virtual appliance to act as a “mobiel proxy” and also to be able to work on iPhone and not only on iPad (IMHO I think that also the vSphere Client for iPad could be adapted to the iPhone screen). From the possible iOS applications there are: iVMControl: […]
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