vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Migrate Windows vCenter Server 6.0 to vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5

magander — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:51:43 +0000

A few weeks back I did my first production environment migration of VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Windows version to vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. I have tested this in customer lab and in my home lab before so it was not a new experience. Since the source vCenter Server used an Embedded Platform Service Controller (PSC) …

Backup vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 Using PowerShell

magander — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:15:07 +0000

A few days ago I was asked to create a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) version 6.5 script using PowerCli. The request was to take a daily backup and send it to a FTPS location in a separate folder per backup. I found that Brian Graf has put together VCSA backup function which was really …

VMware vSphere vCenter Server 6.5 Appliance Deployment using CLI

magander — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:14:25 +0000

A while back i wrote a blog post about the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 Installation & Configuration via UI and as i mentioned in the blog post there is also a command line interface option (CLI) available and this is what this blog post will be all about. The procedure is really simple …

VMware vSphere vCenter Server 6.5 Appliance Installation & Configuration

magander — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:00:21 +0000

Basic documentation about my lab environment VMware vCenter Server 6.5 installation and configuration. I decided to run the UI based installation form my Windows 8 based VDI. However, there is a cli option available for the deployment and a blog post about that can be found here. Hang on for a lot of print screens:) Deployment/Installation …

VMware vCenter Server 6.5 Resource Requirements

magander — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:04:02 +0000

Just a quick blog post about the vCenter Server 6.5 Appliance resource requirements in terms of vCPUs, RAM and Storage per deployment size option. And yes, this is mostly for my personal documentation purposes since the information can also be found in the VMware vSphere 6.5 official documentation, Anyway, the following Deployment Sizes are available: …