I don't have any experience with doing a major version upgrade using it, but most people use Update Manager to update their ESX hosts and nothing else. In testing, updating Windows boxes worked, but ...

Virtualization giant VMware Inc. has made a new update to its vSphere 6.5 platform generally available. VSphere is the company’s flagship platform for implementing and managing virtual machine ...

To take advantage of new and updated features in vSphere 6.5, I recently needed to update one of my lab systems from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5. As the system was co-located, I decided to update it from the ...

VMware’s vSphere 4.0 cloud operating system, which we tested last June ushered in new methods to manage virtual machines on internal and external hosts. The 4.1 version, which shipped last month, ...

The next step of any vSphere upgrade is to upgrade vCenter. However, if you are using vCloud Director the next step would be to upgrade vCloud Director before vCenter. It is crucial at this time to ...