After the big vSphere 7 launch last week, VMware this week announced the General Availability of all vRealize goodness … Namely vRealize Operations 8.1, Automation 8.1 and Log Insight 8.1.

Spending some time at home at the moment I decided to upgrade the home lab, starting with vROps 8.1. I am running two Intel NUCs still with ESXi 6.7 and 32-GB RAM each (really…). My vROps was an 8.01 updated from 8.0, updated from 7.5…

I ran the Upgrade assessment utility first, highly recommended. It will not only check versions, but also resources and pointed out some alerts I had in the past that might indicate resource problems… It comes as a PAK file that you load in the admin interface, like a software update.

After the assessment I just ran the update PAK file…. Obviously I have a very small test install, but I have some management packs installed and 3 compliance packs. All went smoothly. After that I upgraded my vCenter from 6.7 to 7.0 because I was feeling lucky… It proved no problem a all, validating the connection in vROps 7 established the blink to the updated VC.

Notice the newly cleaned interface! I added my Azure account, since cloud management pacs are now native. That will be my next blog post!

Adding my old Shuttle NAS server as a vSphere 7 host is next!