In my last post about upgrading vCenter to 6.5 I've outlined the steps I needed to do for the migration. Both pre-migration, the actual migration and some post-migration steps. Today we were about to upgrade/migrate one of our oldest and biggest vCenters which presented some additional steps to consider for the …

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In a previous postI talked about the upgrade of our vSphere environment. The first post described the upgrade and migration of the Platform Services Controller (PSC) from a version 6 running on Windows to a 6.5 Appliance. Our upgrade path would be PSC -> vCenter -> Hosts. Our environment consists of several vCenters so …

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This is part 2 of my vSphere Performance Data series. Part 1described the project and my goals with the project. This post will be my thoughts on retrieving performance data from our vSphere environment. As I described in part 1 our environment consist of 100+ hosts and 4000+ VMs. These are hosted in 3 different …

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There is lots of posts on retrieving performance data from your vSphere environment (I'll probably use a lot of them in this series), but here's my take on it. My ultimate goal is to build my own database of performance data and have a nice front-end presenting this. I also want to have an API that extracts data from …

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This month we started our upgrade journey from vSphere 6.0 -> 6.5 in production. We have had 6.5 running in lab for some time after the release last fall and we have enjoyed it so far. As a part of this upgrade we plan to migrate to the vCenter appliance on both PSC's and vCenter's as this has gotten all functionality …

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A colleague asked if I had a script lying around that could investigate datastores and find orphaned files. Well, I didn't. But instead of spending a lot of time creating one from scratch I went to our friend google and searched. There were lots of results, but I found one from Powershell guru LucD (lucd.info) and …

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