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vCenter Server Appliance upgrade woes, deploy new and move nodes?

Last weekend we shutdown our 2 node VMWare ESXi cluster, managed by vCenter Server Appliance 5.0.0.3324 Build 472350 (which uses the embedded DB2 database). There was some building work going on and ...
Virtualization Review

Migrating to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

With the release of vSphere 6.5, the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is on par with the Windows vCenter Server, and so I chose to migrate my existing Windows based vCenter Server to it. VCSA has been ...
Virtualization Review

10 Steps To Setting Up vCenter Server Appliance The Right Way, The First Time

The appliance model is here to stay and when done correctly, it works well. That's the case with the vCenter Server Appliance, which I've been using for a while in various capacities, including some ...
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Ping sometimes has response sometimes Request Timed Out

I have a small network setup in VMware Workstation. There are 3 VMs, 1 Firewall, 1 Windows Server (192.168.10.110), and 1 vCenter Appliance (192.168.20.110). There are no rules on the firewall, all ...