2021 Flash End of Life & End of Support - vSphare Client Workaround

 As flash is end of life and end of support in 2021 many of you are not able to use the vSphere web client flash-based.

I still have some of my vCenter servers on 6.5 which support the VMware HTML5 web client however to manage some of my NSX 6.3.x task is not supported on it.

I have manged to run vSphere client on my chrome and internet explorer as workaround and below are the steps you need to perform.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78589

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List of All vCenter Services and their functions

We all perform vCenter validation and troubleshooting based on issues or checks; there are many important and optional services which I want to document though my blog post so we can review them if required.

please feel free to add your comments if you want to discuss more in details.

Below KB article from VMware is very importent for starting / stopping VMware vCenter services.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2109881

 

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VMware vSphere 6.5 - Whats New, Documents & VCP

Its been long time, I have not shared any post recently, I was very busy with some personal stuff....

Recently VMware released v Sphere 6.5 and I want to discuss whats new in vSphere 6.5 and also I would like to share some docs published by VMware which could help you to work for your VCP examinations.

Whats New in vSphere6.5:

There are many new addition and extra

Scale Enhancements – New configuration maximums to support even the largest app environments

VMware vCenter Server® Appliance – The single control center and core building block for vSphere

vCenter Server® High Availability – Native vCenter Server high availability solution

vCenter Server Backup and Restore – Native vCenter Server Backup and Restore

vCenter Server Appliance Tool – Single step migration and upgrade of existing vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance

REST APIs – Simple, modern developer-friendly APIs vSphere Client – HTML5-based GUI that ensures fast performance and cross-platform compatibility

Security-at-Scale – Policy-driven security that makes securing infrastructure operationally simple

Encryption – VM-level encryption protects unauthorized data access both at-rest and in-motion

Audit-quality logging – Enhanced logging that provides forensic information about user actions

Secure Boot – Protection for both the hypervisor and guest operating system by ensuring images have not been tampered with and preventing loading of unauthorized components

vSphere Integrated Containers™ – Virtual infrastructure platform for containers

Proactive HA – High availability capability that utilizes server health information and migrates VMs from degraded hosts before problem occurs

Cross-Cloud vMotion® – Live migrate workloads between VMware based clouds

Virtual Volumes™ Replication – Native array virtual volumes replication

Licence Edition - (Image from whats new doc)

Documents for your study and certification

Thanks to VMware.com for making it available for free....

https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf

vSphere Installation and Setup Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Upgrade Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Migration Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vCenter Server and Host Management Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vCenter Server Appliance Configuration Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Host Profiles Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Networking Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Storage Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Security Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Resource Management Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Availability Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Monitoring and Performance Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Single Host Management – VMware Host Client	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Administration with the vSphere Client Guide	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vSphere Troubleshooting	html	pdf	epub	mobi

Thanks for reading,


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