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Today will do an installation of the web client server on the vCenter.  I will also compare the vCenter 4.1 web access with the new web client access to see the improvement that was done. Do note that the requirements for the web client access would require the following below.  I have also include the links to the offline package for Adobe Flash which many have problem locating it. Internet Explorer 7,8 Mozilla Firefox 3.5, 3.6 Adobe Flash 10.2 Offline package for Latest Adobe Flash IE: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe Firefox: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe   1 Mar 2012 Update: Alternatively, you can make use of the free vCenter vApp and used it as a web client. Michael Webster has a post on the steps.  You can install the web client on a separate Windows VM and it is able to register to multiple vCenters to enable the web client ac...

Upgrade VMware Tools and virtual hardware using Update Manager. Other related posts: vSphere 5 vRAM Licensing vSphere 5 ESXi 5 Installation Upgrade vSphere vCenter 4.x to 5.0 Upgrade ESX/ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.0 using Update Manager Upgrade VMware Tools and virtual hardware with Update Manager

This video will demostrate how to upgrade your ESXi or ESXi 4.x server to ESXi 5.0 using the Update Manager 5.0 plug-in on vCenter 5.0.  Procedures to upgrade your vCenter is in the previous post . Tested with ESX 4.x and ESXi 4.x which has a local datastore with VM in it.  Both upgrade with VUM complete successfully with datastore still intact and VM still exist. The only different is that, when you browse the local datastore which was upgraded from ESX 4.x, you will find the esxconsole folder in it which you would not see this if it was upgraded from an ESXi 4.x. Local datastore from ESX 4.x Local datastore from ESXi 4.x Update: Test with local datastore to test if it will be removed. Next Post: vSphere 5 Migration White Paper and Tools  Other related posts: vSphere 5 vRAM Licensing vSphere 5 ESXi 5 Installation Upgrade vSphere vCenter 4.x to 5.0 Upgrade ESX/ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.0 using Update Manager Upgrade VMware Tools and vir...

vCenter 5.0 Upgrade Part 1: vCenter & vSphere Client vCenter 5.0 Upgrade Part 2: Update Manager Reference: Upgrading vCenter Server 5.0 Best Practice Installing vCenter Server 5.0 Best Practice Migrating to vCenter Server 5.0 using the Data Migration Tool Next post: vSphere 5.0 Migration White Paper and Tools Other related posts: vSphere 5 vRAM Licensing vSphere 5 ESXi 5 Installation Upgrade vSphere vCenter 4.x to 5.0 Upgrade ESX/ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.0 using Update Manager Upgrade VMware Tools and virtual hardware with Update Manager

The new licensing scheme is used in vSphere 5. Unlike in vSphere 4, where vRAM is not taken into consideration rather the number of cores per socket. Let do a refresh. In vSphere 4, for Enterprise edition is entitled to 6 cores per physical processor per server. For Advanced/Enterprise Plus edition, is entitled to 12 cores per physical processor.  As for the RAM limitation will be 256GB memory per host except Enterprise Plus which is unlimited. An example would be follows: 1 server with 2 physical CPUs, each with 8 cores. This will require 2 x Enterprise Plus license. If you apply 2 x Enterprise instead of Enterprise Plus license, only 6 cores per CPU will be used and 2 cores per CPU left idle. Let's talk about vSphere 5 licensing. Before we begin, vSphere 5 have removed Advanced edition. A customers who is on Advanced Edition on vSphere 4 will be upgrade to vSphere 5 Enterprise. vRAM entitlement is based on an edition per physical CPU (no more limitation of number...