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vCenter Support assistant 5.5 was realeased by VMware Yesterday 29th January, 2014. This support assistant is one of those should have tools in VMware environments. It accelerates the support process and also provides proactive alerting about the things that might go wrong with your environment. Its is a free vSphere Web Client plug-in that can…
In this blog post we will take a look at the steps involved in installing ESXi 5.5. Before we start off with the actual steps, Mount the ESXi 5.5 ISO image onto the server and reboot it so the installer kicks in Now the Installer will be loaded. choose the ESXi 5.5 Standard installer and…
In my last two posts i wrote about upgrading ESXi and vCD from 5.1 to 5.5. In this post we will look at vCSA upgrade. Download the vCSA from VMware download page : https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads Deploy the Virtual Center Server Appliance 5.5 OVF/OVA on your supported ESXi like you did with your vCSA 5.1. After deploying the…
In my last post i spoke about upgrading ESXi from 5.1 to 5.5. In this blog post i will be talking about upgrading vCloud Director from 5.1 to 5.5. I will jump in directly to the installation assuming that the vCD 5.5 bin file has been downloaded and uploaded into the vCD cell that is…