Failover within the vCenter HA cluster can occur when an entire node is lost (host failure for example) or when certain key services fail. This solution consists of Active, Passive, and Witness nodes which are cloned from the existing vCenter Server. VCenter Server 6.5 has a new native high availability solution that is available exclusively for the vCenter Server Appliance. This simple user interface now shows Network and Database statistics, disk space, and health in addition to CPU and memory statistics which reduces the reliance on using a command line interface for simple monitoring and operational tasks. The vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface continues its evolution and exposes additional health and configurations. Improved Appliance ManagementĪnother exclusive feature of the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 is the improved appliance management capabilities. During the migration process the vCenter configuration, inventory, and alarm data is migrated by default. If you’ve already migrated to the vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 the upgrade process will migrate your VUM baselines and updates to the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5. This will be huge for customers who have been waiting to migrate to the vCenter Server Appliance without managing a separate Windows server for VUM.
VMware Update Manager (VUM) is now part of the vCenter Server Appliance. Configuration, events, tasks, and performance metrics.In vSphere 6.5 there is an improvement in the migration tool which allows for more granular selection of migrated data as follows: This Migration Tool has several improvements over the recently released vSphere 6.0 Update 2m release. Now, Windows vCenter Server 5.5 and 6.0 are supported. If you’re currently running a Windows vCenter Server 6.0, this is your chance to get to the vCenter Server Appliance using this Migration Tool. Getting to the vCenter Server Appliance is no longer an issue as the installer has a built in Migration Tool. We’ll also cover general improvements to vCenter Server 6.5 including the vSphere Web Client and the fully supported HTML5-based vSphere Client. Users of both Linux and Mac will also be ecstatic since the installer is now supported on those platforms along with Microsoft Windows. If that wasn’t enough, the vCenter Server Appliance now has features that are exclusive such as: For starters, the installer has gotten an overhaul with a new modern look and feel. The vCenter Server Appliance is taking charge in this release with several new features which we’ll cover in this blog article. Today VMware announced vSphere 6.5, which is one of the most feature rich releases of vSphere in quite some time.
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