Disassociate Host From vCenter Server
There maybe many reasons to perform such an action, but mine was due to not removing ESXi 6.0 hosts from a Lab vCenter before destroying it. In this case you will receive the following warning when connecting directly to the ESXi host:
We encountered the following “Conflicting VIBs” blocker, while upgrading ESXi 5.5 hosts to 6.0:
The Mellanox driver is required for infiniBand, as we do not have a requirement for infiniBand we could safely remove the MLX4 VIBs prior to the upgrade. Continue reading
“The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine, which is optimized for running vCenter Server and the associated services on Linux.”
Detailed VMware overview of VCSA found here.
The following tables detail the latest sizing requirements for VCSA 6.0 (VMware VCSA Sizing KB), both Embedded and External. Continue reading
