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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook

You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Mathias Meyenburg

Cedric Rajendran

Abhilash G B

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Using the vCenter 6.5 Migration Assistant

To upgrade and migrate vCenter 5.5/6.0 components running on Windows Servers, vCenter 6.5 comes with a new tool named the vCenter Migration Assistant. The procedure to run the migration-assistant is the same whether you are trying to upgrade an external SSO, PSC, or Update Manager or an embedded version of these. The migration-assistant should be run on the machines hosting these services separately, before initiating the vCenter Migration/Upgrade. The migration/upgrade process will migrate data from all the components server with an active migration-assistant session.

How to do it...

The following procedure will walk you through the steps involved in running the vCenter Migration Assistant to enable the migration of configuration and performance data to the appliance:

Mapping the VCSA 6.5 ISO to the machine running the Windows-based version of vCenter 5.5/6.0.
Browse the ISO ROM contents and navigate to the migration-assistant folder. Copy the entire folder to a location on your Windows-based vCenter machine:

Browse the contents of the migration-assistant from the hard drive location and run the executable VMware-Migration-Assistant.exe as an administrator:

This will bring up a Windows CLI interface, and you will be prompted for the SSO administrator password. Type in the password and press Enter. You will also be prompted for service account credentials if the vCenter Server Windows service is run with a service account's privileges. Type in the password and press Enter:

You will now see the migration-assistant running prechecks and eventually warn you about extension/plugins that cannot be upgraded using this process. For instance, I have got an SRM plugin that cannot be upgraded. It will also display the source vCenter's configuration, and the expected resultant configuration post a successful upgrade:

There is nothing more to do with the migration-assistant tool at this point, but do not close it.
You are now all set to run the VCSA installer's Migrate or Upgrade wizards.

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Authors (3)

Meyenburg

Meyenburg

Mathias Meyenburg has been the managing director of vleet GmbH since January 1, 2019. He has more than 15 years' experience in the IT industry. Starting as a system administrator, his career has progressed to operating and administering large-scale international data centers. He has constantly updated and expanded his know-how and acquired advanced certifications, such as CCNA, MCP, and VCP. vleet GmbH sought him out in 2016 as a solution architect for the whole VMware SDDC stack, Horizon desktop virtualization, Horizon Cloud on Azure, and VMC on AWS.

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Abhilash G B

Abhilash G B

Abhilash G B is a virtualization specialist, author, and a VMware vExpert (2014-2019). His primary focus is in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the beginning of 2007. He holds several VMware certifications, including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-NV. He is also the author of six other publications.

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Rajendran

Rajendran

Cedric Rajendran is a senior staff engineer in technical support with VMware. He has around 13 years of experience covering a wide spectrum of technologies. He holds a master's degree specializing in International Business. He has served in the fields of Network Ops, Technical Support, and Consulting. His core strengths are on the server and storage virtualization. He has authored a book on VMware Virtual SAN, holds advanced certifications with VMware, and is also a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect.

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