After I’ve installed the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) a few weeks ago the testing process is over and I’ve migrated our production vCenter to the new vCSA 6.0.0b. To be able to update and patch our ESXi hosts I want to install the vSphere Update Manager (vUM). Because there is no option to install the vUM on vCSA directly, you need a Windows host for installation.
Category: vSphere (Page 10 of 12)
VSAN 6.1 was released with the update of VMware vSphere 6.0 U1. It is the third release of VSAN and gets some really cool new functions, which could be interesting for enterprises.
- vSphere FT Support
- Clustering Support
- Two Node Solution (ROBO)
- VSAN Stretched Cluster!
Two days ago VMware released the second version of vCenter Server 6.0.0.
After four month the update delivers some bugfixes for SSO, security, storage, installation and upgrade. The full list of fixes can be found in the Release Notes for vCenter 6.0.0b.
In my last “upgrade” article I discribe how to upgrade from vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.5.0 to vCSA 6.0.0
The update could be installed via CMD and mounted ISO in the vCSA.
Today I’ve found a little failure within our production environment.
We use icinga to monitor our production lan, its guests and services. For our Citrix XenApp servers we check the uptime to get notified if they are running to long without reboot.
After we upgrade several servers to vmx-10 everything works fine. Icinga reports all services and performance charts correctly. Now, two days later, the first uptime alerts came up. But the system boot time was only a few hours ago and not two days…
If we power off and power up the machine the uptime does reset.
The counter didn’t reset if the machine is only warm rebooted.
Before you upgrade your ESXi 5.5 Server to the new version of ESXi 6.0, you have to check the support status of your hardware and the requirements of firmware and driver versions.
