Upgrade

Todays post will focus on upgrade from vCenter Server 7.x to 8.x. Process itself isn’t very complicated and in normal environment should take around 1h. Let’s dive into it!

vSphere 7.0 was announced by VMware quite a while ago vSphere 7.0 announcement but only recently I had some time to upgrade my Home Lab to vSphere 7.0.

In this post I will show you the procedure to upgrade ESXi to vSphere 7.0 using esxcli commands.

vSphere 6.7 was released a few months ago but recently I finally found a few minutes of time to upgrade my Homelab to vSphere 6.7.

You can read more about new features introduced in vSphere 6.7 on VMware blog https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/04/introducing-vcenter-server-6-7.html.

Today I will show you how you can easily upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to version 6.7.

One of the parts of the upgrade process from vSphere 6.0 to vSphere 6.5 is to upgrade vSphere Distributed Switch.

Welcome in the next from the Homelab upgrade series. Today as a part of the update we will cover upgrade of NSX 6.2.4 to NSX 6.3.1. VMware NSX 6.3.0 was the first release which supports vSphere 6.5. I already covered upgrade of ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 using different method along with vCenter Server upgrade.

In the last post about upgrading ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5, I showed you How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using esxcli and How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using Interactive Installer. In this post, I will show you how to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using VMware Update Manager.

In the last post, we upgraded ESXi using Interactive Installer https://www.wojcieh.net/how-to-upgrade-esxi-6-0-to-esxi-6-5-using-interactive-installer/. In Today post I will guide you through updating ESXi using esxcli.

Keeping your ESXi up to date can be done in several ways. Today I will show you how to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using Interactive Installer.

I haven’t been writing much about NSX so far, but I am working on an Internet of Things (IoT) Project where NSX is one of the core products. In Today post Step by Step NSX Upgrade, I would like to show you how NSX upgrade should be done.

Even if you are running lab environment vSphere upgrades still have to be done. Same in my case. I wanted to upgraded my environment from vCenter Server 6.0.0 build 2559268 to vCenter Server 6.0 U1b build 3343019.