Moving to new VCenter 5.1 install What will I lose?
I've had the same install of Vcenter (currently V5.1 build 947673) since V4 so I have the old low security SSL certs which cause issues with vcenter plugins and connecting Xendesktop. the process to...
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View ArticleRe: Moving to new VCenter 5.1 install What will I lose?
I just ran across this thread https://communities.vmware.com/thread/456695 it talks about using the existing DB with a fresh install. Maybe that's the way for me to go. upgrade my current install to...
View ArticleESXi 5.0, upgrade to 5.1 or just wait for 5.5 to be released
We have an ESXI 5.0 host and I wanted to upgrade to 5.1 to accommodate server 2012 but I heard that the 5.5 release is around the corner. Should I wit for that or upgrade to 5.1?
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Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to vSphere Upgrade & Install The improvements in SSO in vSphere 5.5 are likely worth waiting for. If you don't have a pressing need to get to...
View ArticleRe: Moving to new VCenter 5.1 install What will I lose?
You lose your performance, task and event history, and you lose your host configuration. If you are using Enterprise+, configuration isn't that big of a deal for a fresh install. Set up one host...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.0, upgrade to 5.1 or just wait for 5.5 to be released
Hello, It is always recommended to follow the upgrade path from one by next. So I would suggest to go with 5.0 to 5.1. and check how it is behaving in your environment.
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.0, upgrade to 5.1 or just wait for 5.5 to be released
It all depends on your needs. Like you said you needed support for 2012 so you wanted to upgrade to 5.1. If the new features do not make sense for you then there is no point upgrading to the newer...
View ArticleRe: Moving to new VCenter 5.1 install What will I lose?
Sorry are you saying this will happen on a new vcenter install with new DB? its the network config I'm most concerned about losing and the datacenter folders. What if I just do a new vcenter install...
View ArticleRe: Moving to new VCenter 5.1 install What will I lose?
In my experience connecting the existing db to a fresh installation of vCenter is a fairly trivial task. There is an article available to assist with the process and this can be found at VMware KB:...
View ArticleRe: Moving to new VCenter 5.1 install What will I lose?
Benwayj, If you connect to the existing database on a new host you should not loose anything of any real consequence. You will not lose folder structure or resource settings (resource pools) or...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.0, upgrade to 5.1 or just wait for 5.5 to be released
As someone who has done this path many times let me provide two different theories: 1. Upgrading to 5.1 is a pain due to all the SSO issues you will run into2. Upgrading to 5.5 during the first few...
View ArticleRe: Best practice to store the System Logs for all of the newly upgraded ESXi...
Evening, Syslog is prefered but VMware has provided a syslog collector on the vcenter install disk that can be installed on any windows host or on your vcenter. I cannot count the number of times I...
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Thanks man, I appreciate your assistance and clarification. I assume that 40 GB dedicated D: drive on the VCenter VM is sufficient to store the logs for 55 VMHost.
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Re: Best practice to store the System Logs for all of the newly upgraded ESXi...
I'll be honest that vmware logs are very very chatty. I am not sure how much space you will need just make it a dynamic disk so you can expand it in Windows later On my main production cluster I...
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Gortee, I guess this can be set in the ESXi Syslog setting somehow to roll the log more often let say every 24 hrs to prevent log buildup.
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Sorry I should have made that more clear it can be done when installed or afterwards. I personally don't use the log collector because we have Linux based central syslogs in my environment plugged...
View ArticleESXi in UEFI mode
Hi I need to install ESXi 5.x in UEFI mode.Quite sure that my hardware supports UEFI.But not sure about the steps though..Can anybody help me with the same. -SatyS
View ArticleRe: Virtual Hardware/VM Compatibility upgrade issues
Last week we upgraded the virtual hardware of 500 VMs form hardware version 7 to 9 (vmx-09). Overall it went smoothly, except for some Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers. We experienced an issue...
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Re: ESXi in UEFI mode
There is no difference at all for UEFI boot. Its just the same how you boot through BIOS. Steps: 1. Change the boot mode from BIOS to UEFI. (Steps will differ for different handware).For a Dell machine...
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