To complete upgrade to vSphere 5.1 you need to complete few more steps, depends on design some of the can be skipped. Recommended: Upgrading VMware Tools Upgrade the Virtual Hardware for Virtual Machines Back Up the vCenter Single Sign On Configuration Upgrade datastore files system from VMFS3 to VMFS5 Upgrade VMware tools before upgrade of the Virtual Machine Hardware Optional: Install or Upgrade vSphere ESXi Dump Collector Install or...

One of they ways of upgrading to vSphere 5.1 is a Simple installation. Simple installation does install below services in exact order: vSphere SingleSignOn vCenter inventory services vCenter server Before upgrade make sure below requirements are met: Create a vCenter Single Sign-On database, unless you plan to install the bundled database. If you are using an existing database for Single Sign On, you must create a database user (RSA_USER)...

Earlier this year, Unitrends announced a new software-only product called Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) that protects virtual and physical environments both locally and in the cloud.  UEB is available as a virtual appliance integrated with both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, and offers all the advantages of their physical backup appliance solutions, but with the flexibility of a software-only deployment. What’s cool about it? ...

Few days ago I had discussion with one of my colleagues about possibility to migrate VM’s between vSphere clusters. I was trying to persuade him that is possible and I did that operation hundreds times, unfortunately unsuccessfully. I decided to write blog article to resolve all doubts. Yes, you can migrate VM’s between vSphere clusters (even between different versions) as long as below conditions are met: vSphere clusters must...

Few weeks back I got new storage for my vSphere kingdom brand new IBM DS8800 Technical specs: CPU – POWER 6 – 4 way processor per unit (2 units) Cache – 384 GB cache shared memory Ports:  32 x 8Gbps HDD: 450GB 10k SAS2 HDD: 300GB 15k SAS2 RAID: 5 Max capa:...