I won’t keep you in suspense. VMware vSphere 6.5 is good. It’s really good. Packed with new features and updates, many of which people have been asking for since forever. It’s certainly not all roses and rainbows here but the list of negatives is far outweighed by the positives.

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If you want the VMware marketing take you can check out the “” PDF they published recently. Many sites have published articles on a lot of these features already. I’ll try and not be redundant and give you my quick thoughts on the features I find the most interesting. This may be a bit of a read, so I won’t waste space reposting images from the What’s New. VMware vSphere 6.5 – The Cons I figure let’s get the ugly out of the way before we start with the awesome.

This is a really short list as I mentioned before. • Compatibility with other VMware products • There are a few VMware products not yet compatible with vSphere 6.5 as of the writing of this article. VMware NSX is on the list and you can check out the others. I’m sure VMware is working on getting those products compatible so this is really a minor complaint.

• Compatibility with some hardware • There are still a ton of older and newer hardware & servers that aren’t yet compatible with vSphere 6.5. Is definitely going to change as support is verified but it’s certainly something you’ll want to check before upgrading. As an aside I recently installed vSphere 6.5 onto a Dell R710, which is currently unsupported, and it works fine.

I did get a new message indicating the CPU may not be supported in a future version though. • Log Insight 4.0 – Single Host • I was recently introduced to Log Insight and I’ll admit it’s interesting, with it’s integration with vROPS among a number of notable improvements.

It also now comes free with a vCenter license and grants you 25 OSIs. The indicates multiple hosts can be assigned licenses but when I added a vCenter it said this license only works for a single host.

The message appeared intentional so I have to assume this changed from vSphere 6 and Log Insight 3.x or it’s always been this way. • vSphere C# Client Removed • So it’s finally gone apparently. I’m in the camp that believes this was a bad move.

I understand the need to consolidate development and to modernize the interface. That being said the venerable C# Client, vSphere Client, Thick Client or whatever you want to call it, for most engineers and administrators is still way better than the vSphere Web Client or the HTML5 Client. It’s faster and organized in a familiar way since it’s been in use across every version of vSphere until now. The fact of the matter is I can build and configure an environment much faster with the C# Client than I can with the vSphere Web Client or the Host Client any day of the week. There’s also an argument to be made that we should have some redundant capabilities for a management interface of vCenter and ESXi. Even if it’s basic and not full of the advanced features, I’d still like it as an option. VMware vSphere 6.5 – The Pros Now for the good stuff.

I’m going to throw my 2 cents at most everything on the What’s New doc from above. So I apologize ahead of time for being long winded here.

I will be skipping some things that I just don’t find that interesting. So let’s get started. • Migration Tool built into the VCSA Installer • Migrating from Windows vCenter to VCSA right from the Installer is a good change. In a lot of instances the de facto upgrade method has been to rip and replace because it was easier than trying to upgrade. The inclusion of Update Manager into the appliance now makes this a very attractive option. • Appliance Management Improvements • You can now see CPU, Memory, Network and Database stats without having to use the CLI. The interface for this is nice looking and really clean, I like it.

A nice addition to be sure. • VCSA Native High Availability • Finally! It’s been a long time coming. VMware has pretty much had nothing available for vCenter on Windows or the appliance, except encouraging backups.

Groboto v3 3 0 win32 xforce exhaust manifold. They had that vCenter Heartbeat thing a while back but it didn’t catch on and it was put out to pasture in 2014. The new VCSA HA feature uses 3 nodes, an active, passive and a witness. It can be enabled, disabled or destroyed at will. VCenter can implement all this on it’s own, no extra configuration or servers or other components needed. Hierarchical data grid view combo box. This is by far one of the best new features. • vCenter Native Backup & Restore • You can now backup the VCSA and PSC appliance from the VAMI or API.