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June 22, 2018September 11, 2018 by James Mueller

My Experience Upgrading vCenter Server from 6.5 to 6.7

vSphere 6.7 was released on April 17, 2018 and I have been eagerly awaiting the ability to upgrade any one of my environments. It recently came to the decision of either upgrading to vSphere 6.5U2 or shooting straight to vSphere 6.7 as a result of support for a newer operating system. Additional benefits in vSphere 6.7 ended… Read More

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June 9, 2018September 11, 2018 by James Mueller

The ramdisk ‘root’ is full.

Despite having it on my “to-do” list for quite some time, I still haven’t configured vSphere Autodeploy. Instead, I’ve written scripts to automate most of the settings that I need to apply. I’ve felt like this has mostly sufficed and enabled me to still quickly provision a host. Not long ago I deployed a new… Read More

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January 11, 2018September 11, 2018 by James Mueller

Meltdown/Spectre Patching – Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

tl;dr – If you’ve patched everything already but still fail verification, check to see if EVC is enabled on the cluster. I found that EVC did not update itself as described in the KB article. Disable/re-enable of EVC enabled new instructions to be applied. — By now, you and the rest of the world know… Read More

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October 31, 2017September 11, 2018 by James Mueller

vSphere Migration – The Gotchas

Yesterday I wrote a little about the process I went through when upgrading my production environment. Today, I want to talk about the issues I faced when doing so and what I learned during the project. During the first part of the project, I moved virtual machines from a Distributed Switch to a Standard Switch.… Read More

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October 30, 2017September 11, 2018 by James Mueller

vSphere Migration – What I Did (Or Oh No… What Did I Do!?)

A quick post about my recent vSphere Upgrade! Earlier this month, I began working on a migration project to move production systems from vSphere 5.5 Update 3 to vSphere 6.5. There’s many different reasons I wanted to do so. I’ll be honest, I’m one of the few that actually wanted to get back to the Web Client. At… Read More

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