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Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 8 – ESXi Driver Upgrade

This is part 8 of the Cisco UCS Configuration Guide, covering the upgrade of the Cisco UCS ESXi drivers using the vSphere Update Manager (vUM).

This post is applicable to customers using VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.

Problem:

Login to vSphere Web Client.
Browse to Home, System Configuration and select Nodes on the top left-hand corner of the UI.
One of your PSC appliances or vCSA instances does not appear in the node list. You may see this after you have upgraded your vCSA infrastructure from 6.0 to 6.5.
Or, the instance is listed with the message “The appliance management service on <object> is not running.”

This post is applicable to customers using VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.

Problem:

You update your vCSA 6.5 instance to 6.5 U1a.
After the update is completed successfully, the root Password Expiry Policy is enabled with 365 days, when it was previously disabled.
This introduces operational risk to your environment where you could be locked out of the root account after a year has elapsed.

Update: As of 19 December 2017, this issue has been corrected in 6.5.0.13000.

This post is applicable to customers using VMware vCenter Server 6.5.

Problem:

vCenter Server deployed with Self-Signed Certificates.
Login to vSphere Web Client.
Try to upload a file to a Datastore and receive the message: “The operation failed for an undetermined reason. Typically this problem occurs due to certificates that the browser does not trust. If you are using self-signed or custom certificates, open the URL in a new browser tab and accept the certificate, then retry the operation.”
Try to deploy an OVA file and the deploy OVA task hangs at 0% and must be cancelled.

This is part 4 of the vSphere 6.5 Basics, detailing the migration of vCenter Server 6.0 on Windows to vCSA 6.5, including the cleanup and rollback processes. Continue reading vSphere 6.5 Basics – Part 4 – Migrate vCenter Server 6.0 on Windows to vCSA 6.5

This is part 5 of the vSphere 6.5 Basics, detailing the upgrade of vCSA 6.0 to vCSA 6.5, including the cleanup and rollback processes. Continue reading vSphere 6.5 Basics – Part 5 – Upgrade vCSA 6.0 to vCSA 6.5

This is part 3 of the vSphere 6.5 Basics, detailing the installation of vCenter Server on Windows Server 2016 including the option of vSphere Update Manager. Continue reading vSphere 6.5 Basics – Part 3 – vCenter Server Install with Windows Server 2016 (with vUM option)