Bernard Baurin

Archive for the ‘VMware’ Category

VMware offers to the technical architects a newest version of the document library, vCloud Architecturee Toolkit (vCat v2.0.1), very helpful to design and implement public, private or hybrid Clouds environments, including the technologies of vSphere 5 and vCloud Director 1.5. The library  provides guidelines detailed with use cases.

To read and study prior to initiating an architectural project !

Reminder : The ESXi hypervisor is the one component maintained in the new architecture.

VMware list the major steps to migrate VMware vSphere 4.x. to the 5.x version. The document VMware vSphere 5.0 Upgrade Best Practices describes all the combinations of cases for migration.

Major steps

Step 1 : Upgrade of the VMware vCenter server

Step 2 : Upgrade of the hosts to ESXi 5.0

Step 3 : Complete the upgrade of Virtual Machines

Step 4 : Upgrade the datastores to VMFS 5.