Upgrading Your vSphere Environment
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Course Summary
This course walks through the design, planning, and implementation steps necessary to upgrade a vSphere environment.
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Course Description
Running a virtualized environment is already a complex and demanding task, especially when upgrading to the next version of vCenter or ESXi is on your list of things to do. This course is your upgrade companion, providing guidance on all of the planning, design, and deployment work necessary to continue being the triumphant VMware guru that you know yourself to be. We'll cover support guidelines, architecture pivot points, common pitfalls and gotchas, and do a step-by-step upgrade in a multisite data center scenario with plenty of lab demos.
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Course Syllabus
Initial Inspection and Data Gathering- 25m 59s
—Introduction 4m 11s
—Versions and Builds 2m 9s
—Discovery Tools 5m 30s
—Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) 3m 50s
—3rd Party Software 2m 1s
—Interoperability Matrix 4m 33s
—Support Lifecycles 3m 43sFuture State Design - vCenter Server- 46m 44s
—Intro 1m 17s
—Selecting a vCenter Version 5m 3s
—Single Sign-on (SSO) 11m 34s
—vSphere Web Client 4m 37s
—Platform Services Controller (PSC) 4m 4s
—VMware Update Manager (VUM) 2m 10s
—SSL Certificates 2m 6s
—Database Server 3m 43s
—Physical vCenter 3m 54s
—Virtual vCenter 1m 17s
—New and Expiring Features 2m 53s
—Health Validation 4m 0sFuture State Design - ESXi Hosts- 39m 32sPlanning Your Upgrade- 18m 51svCenter 5.5 Upgrade with External SSO- 47m 52sEmbedded SSO, SSL Certificates, and Linked Mode- 28m 28sUpgrading vCenter Server to 6.0- 18m 27sVMware Update Manager (VUM)- 59m 13sUpgrading ESXi Hosts- 22m 1s