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To be honest, the simplest way described for example here: https://www.wojcieh.net/upgrade-vcenter-server-appliance-6-5-to-6-7/ should keep all your names. Have you ever tried to upgrade in such a way? For example on the lab?

You should select latest one and it contains all previous patches. I recommend to read latest release notes and check any issues about update. One time I had a problem with update and I had to update one by one from lowest number release to highest but it was one time.

Hmmm, Maybe try to change size to large or small, aplly and then go back to medium and apply. It should rerender form. Second idea is to check if you have latest hot fixes: VMware Knowledge Base and install HF2 if it is missing. I've checked on my environment 7.6HF2 version and I cannot observe such issue.

Usually PSOD is caused by wrong firmware or driver version. Could ou check you hba firmware version? VMware Knowledge Base And then we need to check it on compatibility matrix, maybe there is a known issue. Check also output from this: esxcli  storage core adapter list vmkchdev -l |grep vmhba3 example: vmkchdev -l |grep vmhba0

I have found thisin docs: vSphere HA Security vSphere HA is enhanced by several security features. Select firewall ports opened vSphere HA uses TCP and UDP port 8182 for agent-to-agent communication. The firewall ports open and close automatically to ensure they are open only when needed. https://www.vmgu.ru/ext/books/vsphere-ha-deepdive.pdf

Could you explain with more details what you want to do? Do you you want to migrate VMs between 2 vCenters or just in the same vCenter? There are few solutions to do a batch jobs for example: PowerCLi, vRealize Orchestrator. Have you ever try to use it?

EVALUATION LICENSE. If You are licensing the Software for evaluation purposes, Your use of the Software is only permitted in a non-production environment and for the period limited by the License Key.  https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/downloads/eula/universal_eula.pdf

It looks good. You can shutdown SRM and vROPS while upgrading. Or not but it will send you a lot of errors that vCenter is unavailable. Remember to do a backup of SQL,vCenter and PSC from the the same time. The best option is to power off all and do a backup and snapshots. And check release notes for known issue. Maybe you will find something interesting for your environment.

Hello, If you have vRealize Suite Advanced 2018 with active support (active on date when vRA 8 was released) you can upgrade this license from my.vmware.com portal to vRealize Suite Advanced 2019 and you should be able to use vRA 8. Always you can download patches and versions till date when your support is ending. So if your support is ending for example 20 April 2020, you should be able to download and use all versions/patches released before that date.

Hmmm, Are you sure that VM-02 is not on list?: (HTLM5 client): Menu->Host and Clusters-><your Cluster>->Configure->VM Overrides if you VM is there, click on VM and edit and check if HA PDL or APD override is enabled (and disable it). If VM is not there, i have no idea what the reason is.

I have found this i log: 2019-10-29T10:36:22.729+01:00 error vpxd[05056] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxdVdb] Shutting down the VC as there is not enough free space for the Database(used: 95%; threshold: 95%). Helpful should be: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67017 and this: VMware Knowledge Base vCenter automatically shutdown vCenter Service when vPostrgres DB exceed 95% (i don't remember, it could be different value).

I don't think so, that you need some extra license to use it. I check in documentation: Enable CPU Hot Add And I could not find any license requirements. I've also checked edition comparison: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vsphere/vmw-flyr-comparevsphereeditions-uslet.pdf I there is nothing about hot-add feature. I could only find information in older versions about Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus license. But now VMware does not offer such editions. And finally I've got a KB for 6.0 version: VMware Knowledge Base And here we have Hot-add feature starting from Standard edition. So only Essentials does not include it.

Hi, For vCenter in version 6.0 you can manage ESXi hosts with version: 5.5 and 6.0. You can check this out on VMware Intercompatibility Matrix: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php#interop&2=&1= So if you want to manage ESXi in version 6.7, first of all you have to upgrade your vCenter server. Upgrade sequence: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/53710 About mixing ESXi versions in one cluster: Generally it works. Usually, this is done to facilitate rolling upgrades.  If you have a large 32-node cluster it's difficult to upgrade all 32 hosts at once. But I am not sure if it is officially supported. If you need to mix HA/DRS cluster with different versions of ESXi remember that you must use VMware Tools, VM Hardware version etc. in versions supported by all hosts in cluster.