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On March 15th VMware has released the Update 2 for vSphere 6.
The VMware Host Client is one cool new feature of the ESXi update. HTML5 based and used for configuring standalone ESXi Host. You can also configure vCenter controlled ESXi Host, but there are often better ways with the central vSphere Web Client.
The list of my articles with “Update vCenter Appliance” is growing :)
This article explains the update to version 6.0.0 U2 (6.0.0.20000) of the VMware vCenter Server Appliance.
In my older articles I described the updates for earlier versions
I prefer the update via Webinterface, but do also watch the progress with the console.
Today I got an email from the VMware Team that some products are going EOS (end of sale)
From 30.06.2016 vSphere Enterprise, vSphere with Operations Management Standard / Enterprise will be unavailable.
From 01.03.2016 VMware vRealize Operations Insight, VMware vRealize Operations Public Cloud Extension and VMware vRealize Automation Public Cloud Extension will be unavailable.
All products will remain in support until the lifecycle ends. You can get the information here Product-Lifecycle-Matrix
All customer of vSphere Enterprise / vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise get a discount of 50% for an upgrade to Enterprise Plus. This offer is valid from 10.02.2016 until 25.06.2016.
Here are the new prices and packages
VMware vSphere/vSphere with Operations Management – new prices and packages
In my article http://blog.ganser.com/975 I described the update from the first version of vCenter Server Appliance 6 to the Update 1. The update needs to connect an ISO image and CLI commands to be installed.
In vCenter Server Appliance you could go the same way or update via Webinterface.
On January 22nd VMware Release Notes added a hint, what to do if the installer stuck at 70%. Read more at the end of my install steps.
Since 2013 I am using Citrix Netscaler both at work and for my homelab. At work we have Netscaler SDX which have much power and throughput. For my homelab I am using the free Netscaler VPX with a maximum throughput of 5Mbps. @MarcHuppert gave me a hint to checkout the LoadBalancer from KEMP technologies. In the free community version of VLM you get 20Mbps throughput which would be enough for homelabs and testing in production.
It was easy to install the appliance and the initial configuration was done in minutes. In the next days I will post how to add virtual services and content switching.
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