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vSphere 6.5 Topology and Upgrade Planning Tool

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:15:21 +0000

Overnight VMware announced a new technical resource for vSphere administrators called vSphere Central. Check out the blog post here.

In conjuntion with the above, Adam Eckerle released a blog post to announce the availability of a new tool named vSphere 6.5 Topology and Upgrade Planning Tool. The blog post can be found here.

I don’t want to repeat much of the post here, but in short to quote Adam; “This tool aims to help customers plan and execute both upgrades to vSphere 6.5 as well as new deployments.”

VMware Fling: vSphere Compatibility Predictor

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:48:14 +0000

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Introduction

If you work in the VMware suite of products and haven’t heard of or checked out the VMware Flings website, head on over and check it out! As the website says; “Flings are apps and tools built by our engineers that are intended to be played with and explored.”

A lot of products and features that make it into the product start out as being VMware flings. Some recent ones that come to mind are the vCenter Migration Tool (migrate Windows vCenter to the Appliance), HTML5 Web Client, ESXi Embedded Host client … you get the drift. The flings are not supported by VMware Global Support Services, so the general recommendation is not to use these tools in production environments. The engineers and product managers are usually quite responsive via the comments section on the Flings website and social media.

Reminder - vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 End of General Support

Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:23:00 +0000

In the busy world we live in, a lot can be said for the “time flies when you’re having fun” saying. And with so much happening in the world of the SDDC, it’s easy to forget about some of the core components that, for the most part, sit there reasonably quietly just ‘doing their thing’.

This is just a quick reminder post for those still running vSphere 5.0 or 5.1, that end of general support ends for those products this week, on the 24th of August to be exact.