With the recent discovery of both Meltdown and Spectre I’ve been dispatched to do some patching. This has led to more than a few compatibility and interoperability checks- fun times indeed. I then realised I’ve
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Upgrading vSphere from 6.0 to 6.5
This is a four step guide on the process of upgrading from vSphere 6.0 to 6.5. I’ve included all steps individually for those who aren’t taking advantage of the full vSphere suite. Part 1- Running
Read moreRunning the VMware VCSA Migration Assistant
This is part one in a four part series on upgrading to vSphere 6.5 You can find the rest of the series here You will receive the following error if running VMware Update Manager on
Read moreUpgrading from ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with VCSA 6.5
This is part four in a four part series on upgrading to vSphere 6.5 You can find the rest of the series here This section of the tutorial will deal with the matter or upgrading
Read moreUpgrading from VCSA 6.0 to 6.5 Part 1
This is part two in a four part series on upgrading to vSphere 6.5 You can find the rest of the series here This section of the tutorial will deal with the matter or upgrading,
Read more‘The host returns esxupdate error code:15.’ with VSAN and USB Boot Disks
I was recently having some difficulty with VMware Update Manager. Remediating each host in my lab failed with The host returns esxupdate error code:15. This was one of those very satisfying situations that I managed
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I’ve been going through my lab and changing generic passwords to much stronger, randomly generated passwords for each service. One service posed a problem: VUM. I updated the ODBC Data Source but vCenter still reported
Read moreInstalling VUM – Some Caveats
I recently had the the great, great pleasure of discovering VMware Update Manager or VUM but as with most things in my environment, it wasn’t a straightforward install. VUM is only made for Windows but
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