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PXE boot and install ESXi 6.7 U1 - remember to use correct boot files

Feb 12, 2019 (Last modified: Mar 31, 2019) pxe upgrade deployment

This is a short revisit of an earlier [blog post on automating ESXi installation](/2018/03/27/building-a-pxe-boot-environment-for-esxi/) through PXE booting and Kickstart scripts

Upgrading the VCSA and converting to embedded PSC

Nov 1, 2018 (Last modified: Mar 30, 2019) appliance psc upgrade vcenter

This week I've been playing in our vCenter lab and tested the upgrade to 6.7 U1 and also changing the deployment type to vCenter with embedded PSC. I must say that the vCenter team has done a great job on the upgrade process over the last year. Both our migration from the Windows vCenter to the VCSA as well as the …

VCSA 6.7 Upgrade error - The mystery of how the installer connected to the wrong VM

Jul 12, 2018 (Last modified: Mar 30, 2019) appliance vcenter vcsa upgrade

When trying to upgrade our lab vcenter from 6.5 to 6.7 this week we encountered a strange error. Our lab environement is running vSphere 6.5 on VCSA and we are running with an external PSC. So when starting the upgrade of the PSC I got an error early in the process, while connecting to the source VCSA. Error when …

Upgrading to HPE OneView 4.1 - Failed!

Jul 4, 2018 (Last modified: Apr 1, 2019) oneview upgrade

After the release of the new and shiny version 4.1 of HPE OneView we have tried to upgrade one of our (smaller) OneView instances. The update process is usually quite straight forward and it gets better in every release. The upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x had some issues with certificate handling post-upgrade, but it was …

vSphere 6.5 upgrade – vCenter server. Check your database size

Jun 27, 2017 (Last modified: Mar 29, 2019) appliance migration upgrade vcenter

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 …

vSphere 6.5 upgrade – vCenter server

Jun 22, 2017 (Last modified: Mar 29, 2019) appliance upgrade vcenter

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 …

vSphere 6.5 upgrade - PSC

Jun 1, 2017 (Last modified: Mar 29, 2019) migration psc upgrade vcenter

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 …