Last weekend we shutdown our 2 node VMWare ESXi cluster, managed by vCenter Server Appliance 5.0.0.3324 Build 472350 (which uses the embedded DB2 database). There was some building work going on and ...

With the release of vSphere 6.5, the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is on par with the Windows vCenter Server, and so I chose to migrate my existing Windows based vCenter Server to it. VCSA has been ...

The appliance model is here to stay and when done correctly, it works well. That's the case with the vCenter Server Appliance, which I've been using for a while in various capacities, including some ...

Stratus saw that VMware's vCenter, a critical component of a VMware-based virtual environment, had become a single point of failure. Stratus knew that it had a highly compatible solution that could ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. [WP_IMAGE]First, to be clear, vSphere 5.0 has two choices ...

I'm testing backup and restore of VCSA 6.7 (build 15505668 - the latest version). I successfully performed a file-based backup from the VAMI interface to an FTP server. Next task was to test the ...