How to upgrade Cisco VIC drivers via VMware Update Manager
After upgrading the UCS firmware and installing ESXi on the C220 M5s, I wanted to upgrade the native VIC drivers using offline bundles provided by Cisco. Of course,…
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No patches showing up for VMware vCenter Appliance–FIXED
I think I experienced an edge case issue where one of my client’s vCenter Appliances wasn’t showing any available patches to install. This was a 6.7.12000 version of…
Migrating Windows Based vCenter to VMware Virtual Appliance 6.7 Walk Through
All of my new implementations are running VMware’s vCenter Virtual Appliance. It is SOO easy to deploy and includes everything you need for your infrastructure including Update Manager. …
Upgrading VMware vCenter 6.0 appliance with a Windows based Update Manager option
I ran into an interesting situation the other day. When vSphere 6.0 was the hot new product out there, I had converted a client of mine from a…
Considering upgrading to vSphere 6.7? I’d wait a few months …
VMware vSphere 6.7 was dropped while I was out in Atlanta for EMPOWER and I was pretty stoked to upgrade some environments to it at the time. The…
Pushing the NVIDIA Grid VIB to vSphere using Update Manager for vGPUs.
I’ve been working with a customer getting the NVIDIA Tesla M60 cards working in their environment and compiled some great information for those of you looking into this.…
Stuck in Maintenance mode after 5.5 ESXi upgrade
I received a call from a client asking for help removing maintenance mode from an ESXi host. The 5.5 host was put into maintenance mode, had some patches…
Lock-Blocked by vSphere Lockdown mode.
I was doing some routine upgrades this past night when I ran into a strange issue that I figured I would make a note of. While using VMware’s…
Safe to upgrade to vSphere 5.5 Update 1 with NFS
After a couple of months of ignoring Update Manager’s rollup patch to vSphere 5.5 Update 1, it is now safe to click install. :) (Although you might want…