Ansible is a great tool to perform various automation tasks quickly and easily. I really enjoy using it in the home lab to automate various tasks. Have you ever wanted to update multiple standalone ESXi hosts in an automated way? Do you SSH into each of your hosts and run the ESXCLI update command manually? …

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In the previous post, we took a look at how to Upgrade vSphere 6.0 to 6.7 – vCenter Server VCSA. Now that we have the vCenter Server upgraded to 6.7, we can now start upgrading hosts to ESXi 6.7. Let’s take a look at the upgrade methods available for getting your ESXi hosts upgraded to …

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We just covered the topic of VMware 6.0 End of Life coming in March 12, 2020. If you are still running VMware vSphere 6 in your environment, now is the time to start thinking about your upgrade to vSphere 6.7. Actually, the process is not that difficult in more straight line configurations running a vCenter …

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We are certainly in the age of virtualization and the hypervisor is at the core of what makes virtualization possible. Both VMware and Microsoft have hypervisors they allow you to download for free. This allows anyone to get their hands on an enterprise grade hypervisor and play around with it. Focusing in more on the …

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One of the great features of the new vSphere versions since vSphere 6.5 is the vSphere Client. It has been extremely cool to see how the various clients to access VMware vSphere have evolved over the past couple of years. Not too long ago we all remember using the VMware vSphere Client that was a …

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I wanted to post a quick post regarding an error received in the lab environment when updating a vCenter Server appliance that I hadn’t logged into in quite a while. There are already a few posts when ones who have encountered this issue, however, hopefully this post will help to give visibility to the reason …

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In today’s fast-paced environments, automation is king of the hill. In fact in most operations environments in many businesses, it is simply not possible to do things the way they used to be done. Many if not most of today’s VMware vSphere administrators are making use of PowerCLI to be able to manage, monitor, and …

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One of the great things about ESXi from a lifecycle management and update perspective is you have multiple ways to do things. As administrators, we want to have options for various scenarios. As posted in the previous post covering the new vSphere Update Manager features in vSphere 6.7 Update 2, VMware is continuing to make …

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Well, the upgrades are beginning in the home lab for getting everything up to vSphere 6.7 Update 2. There are many ways to update ESXi to the latest version and I have to say VMware has made this process rock solid. There have been many improvements made to the update process including vSphere Update Manager …

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Well, after the announcement of VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2, the bits are finally GA! VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 is a great step forward for the platform. VMware continues to evolve the platform to be more and more powerful and cloud aware as well as provide features and functionality that customers around the world …

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