vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 with an embedded internal database was limited to a maximum of 5 hosts and 50 virtual machines. ![]() So, when you thought the old vCenter Server Appliance was not suitable for production environments, this one definitely is. With this version 5.5 VMware removed some of the vCenter Server Appliance limitations. Use the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix to determine which versions of these solutions are compatible with vCenter Server 5.5. Before you start, check any other VMware associated solution which uses VMware vCenter server, such as VMware View, vCloud Director and Site Recovery Manager. Step 1: Upgrade the VMware vCenter Server Appliance and, if applicable, the VMware Update Manager. The uupgrade to vSphere 5.5 is a straight forward four step process. ![]() This can be a problem when you are using a free version of ESXi or if you’re unable to manage it through a vCenter server for whatever reason.īecause I run a VMware vSphere 5.1 environment, this is a upgrade from vSphere 5.1 to 5.5. Modification to this virtual machine must be executed using the vSphere Web Client. Once you upgrade a virtual machine’s hardware to VM hardware version 10, it is no longer possible to edit the virtual machine using the traditional vSphere client.net-r8168 and net-r8169 for certain Realtek adapters and net-sky2 for Marvell adapters Some of these drivers have been removed, e.g. ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 included drivers for network adapters that are not officially supported by VMware, but were very useful for installing ESXi on whitebox hardware. ![]() We already did a ‘ What’s new in vSphere 5.5‘ post but now it is actually available, so it’s time to find out how to upgrade to vSphere 5.5.īut before we start, there are a few caveats: A few weeks ago during VMworld 2013 VMware announced vSphere 5.5.
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