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VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials

By : Lauren Malhoit
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VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials

By: Lauren Malhoit

Overview of this book

<p>vCenter Operations Manager offers a powerful solution to administrating a large virtual machine deployment, allowing you to automate processes and plan your resource capacity to maximize hardware efficiency.</p> <p>This book contains step-by-step tutorials, detailed descriptions, and real-world solutions that will allow you to overcome the complexity of a powerful but often overwhelming suite of tools for the modern network administrator. Install, configure, troubleshoot, and expand your virtualization deployment with this essential handbook.</p> <p>The vCenter Operations Management Suite contains so much information within one solution that it can be intimidating. It can make administrators feel overwhelmed or think that they are not using it properly. This book is a practical guide to using vCenter Operations Manager for the everyday administrator. It not only gives step-by-step instructions but also makes admins more comfortable with the user interface so they can maintain, troubleshoot, and design their infrastructure and virtual environment in the most efficient way possible.</p> <p>VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials guides you through installing and configuring vCenter Operations Manager and shows you how to maximize its potential. vCenter Operations Manager helps you maintain and troubleshoot your VMware environment as well as your physical environment. It goes beyond using the simple alarms vCenter gives you by explaining the virtual environment and how to track, explain, and find solutions to anomalous behavior. You're taught how to deploy the power of vCops to maximize your ability to plan capacity and design your environment, enabling more efficient use of your hardware than ever before.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Upgrading vC Ops


Upgrading vC Ops is a fairly simple procedure due to its vApp architecture. When a new version of vC Ops comes out, we simply need to download the .pak file that comes from VMware and apply that to our vApp.

To upgrade vC Ops, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to your admin portal by browsing to https://<IP_Address>/admin and providing the admin credentials.

  2. Click on the Update tab.

  3. Click on Browse to find the .pak file you've downloaded from VMware.com.

  4. Follow the wizard to complete the upgrade.

  5. Upgrade your license if necessary. For some of the minor releases, this is not necessary. You will need to check the VMware documentation for information on this.

Keep in mind you'll need to wait for about 20 minutes for the license to upgrade. Until that has completed, or you've manually upgraded the licenses using the steps mentioned earlier in this chapter, some of the features of the new version may not be available.