From the drop-down menu click Administration, on the left hand task pane under Deployment I select System Configuration. from the drop-down menu select VC > click Search. This was previously achieved in vSphere 6.5 onwards using a CLI tool.įollowing an upgrade of 4 existing vCenter Servers with external PSC nodes I log into the vSphere client. The converge functionality was added to the GUI with vSphere 6.7 U2, and enables consolidation of external Platform Services Controller (PSC) into the embedded deployment model. This post gives an overview of the vCenter Server converge process using the HTML5 vSphere client.
Finally, the Windows vCenter Server and external PSC deployment models are now depreciated and not available with vSphere 7.0. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. Authentication auto deploy Backups Content Library Data Protection DRS encryption ESXi Fiber Channel HA host profiles iSCSI Networking NFS NSX NTP Ops Mgr Performance PowerCLI PSC Replication Resource Pools security SRM SSO Storage Storage DRS troubleshooting VCAP6-Deploy vcenter vCenter Appliance VCP6-DCV VCSA vDP vDS vFlash Virtual Machines. For more information see the VMware Upgrade Matrix. VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5. Upgrade to vSphere 7 can be achieved directly from vSphere 6.5.0 and above, whereas vSphere 6.0 requires an intermediate upgrade to 6.5 or 6.7 first. VMware vSphere 6.0 reached end of general support 12 March 2020, with vSphere 6.5 scheduled for 15 October 2022, both referenced in the VMware Lifecycle Matrix.