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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

By : Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

By: Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware's industry-leading virtual cloud platform. By understanding how to manage, secure, and scale apps with vSphere 6.7, you can easily run even the most demanding of workloads. This Learning Path begins with an overview of the features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You'll learn how to plan and design a virtual infrastructure. You'll also gain insights into best practices to efficiently configure, manage, and secure apps. Next, you'll pick up on how to enhance your infrastructure with high-performance storage access, such as remote direct memory access (RDMA) and Persistent memory. The book will even guide you in securing your network with security features, such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption. Finally, by learning how to apply Proactive High Availability and Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you'll be able to achieve enhanced computing, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run high workloads. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition by Mike Brown and Hersey Cartwright Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition by Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, and Paolo Valsecchi
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Upgrading vCenter 6.5 for Windows to vCenter  6.7 for Windows

vCenter for Windows is a fully supported deployment type in VMware vSphere 6.7, but keep in mind that this is the last version that supports vCenter for Windows. In the next release,  vCSA will be the only supported deployment.

The upgrade consists of two steps:

  1. Upgrade PSC (the embedded version is not used)
  2. Upgrade vCenter Server

PSC upgrade

Before you upgrade vCenter for Windows to vCSA, the PSC must be migrated to the corresponding vSphere version, which in our case is vSphere 6.7.

If you are migrating vCenter for Windows with an embedded PSC, you can skip this step. You can follow these steps to upgrade your PSC:

  1. Perform a backup of the...