VMware vSphere 6.5 is generally available for almost a year. You'll find most up-to-date information about VMware vSphere 6.5 on this dedicated page centralizing all articles, news, videos and tutorials published through ESX Virtualization.
All posts were written, tested by myself, to be 100% accurate. If things do not work as in my particular case, don't blame me. It's a lab environment….
You can download The upgrade patch for vCenter (Windows or VCSA) by going to the VMware Patch Download Center and choosing VC from the Search by Product drop down.
While you are there you can also select the ESXi… and download the latest cumulative upgrade patch…
This page has all our blog posts with deep technical information about different features of VMware vSphere 6.5, ESXi 6.5 or associated products such as DR, Backup, replication, monitoring, with many how-to articles and videos. Stay tuned through RSS, and social media channels (Twitter, FB, YouTube).
Update your vCSA Appliance…
Our Videos about VMware vSphere 6.5
Full Playlist of vMware vSphere 6.5 videos is here…
VMware vSphere blog articles from ESX Virtualization:
- What is VMware vSphere HA Admission Control?
- VMware Network Adapter Types
- VMware vSphere Standard vs Enterprise Plus
- Patch vCenter Server Appliance configured with High Availability (HA)
- vSphere 6.7 or vSphere 7.0 ???
- VMware Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Explained
- What is VMware Memory Ballooning?
- Increase Boot Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM
- VMware vCenter Server Standard vs Foundation – Differences
- What is VMware vSphere Update Manager?
- What Is VMware User Environment Manager?
- What is VMware VMFS Locking Mechanism?
- What is VMware CEIP Program And How It Helps An IT Admin With Troubleshooting vSphere
- VMware Cloud on AWS is GA
- VMware Integrated Openstack 4.0 announced – VMworld 2017
- What Is VMware Identity Manager?
- VMware ESXi 6.5 U1 and VSAN 6.6.1 Lab Upgrade
- VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 Released
- What is VMware Stretched Cluster?
- VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change?
- What is VMware CPU Ready?
- What Are VMware Host Profiles?
- What Is VMware Mirage?
- What Is VMware Virtual NVMe Device?
- How VMware HA Works?
- What is VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure?
- What is VMware vSAN Caching Tier?
- What is VMware vSAN Disk Group?
- VMware vSAN 6.6 Announced
- VMware vSAN 6.6 Released – Configuration DEMO
- VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO
- What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it?
- What are Open VM Tools and How to use them?
- What is VMware Snapshot?
- What is VMware vSAN Affinity for Stretched Clusters
- What’s New in vSphere 6.5 – New Training Course from PluralSight
- What is VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
- What is The Difference between VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter
- What is VMware vMotion?
- What is VMware Platform Service Controller (PSC)?
- How to use VMware IOInsight – Free IO Testing Tool
- What is VMware vSphere Hypervisor?
- What is VMware Orchestrated Restart?
- What is VMware Storage DRS (SDRS)?
- What is VMware Cluster?
- How to create a custom ESXi 6.5 ISO with VMware Image Builder GUI – updated!!
- VMware vSphere 6.5 and New Image Builder GUI – Cloning a profile
- VMware vSphere 6.5 AutoDeploy Rules
- Prepare the DHCP Server for vSphere Auto Deploy Provisioning
ESXi:
- Increase Inactivity Timeout on VMware ESXi Host Client
- How To Create VMware ESXi ISO With Latest Patches
- How To Reset ESXi Root Password via Microsoft AD – New!!
- How to configure ESXi 6.5 Network Time Protocol (NTP) via Host Client?
- Three Ways to Enable ESXi Shell and Timeout
- ESXi Commands List – networking commands [Part 2] – useful to check BEFORE upgrade of ESXi !!! (HCL, Drivers, Firmware…)
- How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 via CLI [On Line]
- How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 via ISO
- How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 via Offline Bundle
- How to upgrade an ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 via VMware Update Manager
- How to create a USB media with ESXi 6.5 Installation
- How to Create a Security Banner for ESXi
vCenter Server:
- Patch vCenter Server Appliance configured with High Availability (HA)
- How to reset root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5
- How to reset Single Sign-On (SSO) password in vSphere
- How to patch VMware VCSA 6.5 via ISO patch downloaded from VMware Patch Portal
- How to patch VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from Offline Depot ZIP file
- VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup with Simple Configuration – [LAB]
- VMware vCSA 6.5 HA Failover Test – Video
- VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup – Advanced Configuration
- How to Configure Statistics Collection Intervals in vCenter
- How to deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 (VMware vCenter Server Appliance)
- How to Migrate Windows based vCenter Server 6.0 to vCenter 6.5 (“In-Place”)
- How to Migrate Windows Based vCenter to VCSA 6.5 [Lab] – Windows to Linux
- How to Install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation [LAB] – “testing”
- VMware VCSA 6.5 Backup and Restore How-To
- VMware vSAN Upgrade Scenarios For Small Clusters
- VMware vSAN Pass-Through vs RAID0 Storage Controller
- Time Configuration For vSAN Witness – [Lab]
Shop
- VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit Term
- VMware vSphere Essentials Kit Term
- VMware vSphere Essentials
- VMware vSphere Essentials Plus
Training:
Quick Tips:
To connect to the vsphere webclient you enter https://IP_of_vCenter:9443//vsphere-client/
To add a localized language add this to the end:
For English – /?locale=en_US
For German – /?locale=de_DE
For French – /?locale=fr_FR
For Japanese – /?locale=ja_JP
For Chinese – /?locale=zh_CN
Videos 1080p (YouTube): 
- VMware vCSA 6.5 HA Failover Test – Video – New!!
- VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup With Simple Configuration – [LAB]
- How to deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 (VMware vCenter Server Appliance)
- How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 via Offline Bundle
- How to create a USB media with ESXi 6.5 Installation
- How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 via CLI [On Line]
- How to Migrate Windows based vCenter Server 6.0 to vCenter 6.5 (In-Place)
- How to deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 on ESXi host
- How to Migrate Windows Based vCenter to VCSA 6.5
- How to deploy VCSA 6.5 on VMware Workstation
- How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 via ISO
VMware vSphere 6.5 detailed posts:
- VMware vSphere 6.5 Released – Start Your Download Engines
- VMware vSphere 6.5 Announced
- VMware vSphere 6.5 – Native vCenter High Availability (VCSA 6.5 only)
- VMware vSphere 6.5 – HTML5 Web Client and More
- VMware vSphere 6.5 – VUM, AutoDeploy, and Host Profiles
- VMware vSphere 6.5 – HA and DRS Improvements
- VMware vSphere 6.5 Fault Tolerance (FT) Improvements
- VMware VSAN 6.5 – What’s New?
- VMware vSphere 6.5 – VM Encryption Details
- VMware vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums – New!!
VMware Horizon View 7
vmFork testing in a lab? Yes we did a small install/config:
- VMware Horizon 7 Installation and Configuration
- VMware Horizon 7 Installation and Configuration – Part 2
- VMware Horizon 7.0.3 Released adding compatibility with vSphere 6.5
- VMware Horizon 7 Reviewer's Guide
Other VMware Products for vSphere 6.5
- How to Deploy VMware LogInsight 4 and What’s new?
- VMware vRealize Operations 6.6 Announced
- vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3 What’s New?
VMware Mirage
VMware PDFs and Official Documentation:
- What’s new in VMware vSphere 6.5 – Technical PDF
- VMware vSAN 6.5 Licensing PDF
- VMware vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums
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Older posts
- VMware vSphere 6.5 is next?
- vSphere 6.5 Web Client – Free Preview Released by VMware Labs
INF4528 – vCenter Server Appliance VCSA Best Practices & Tips Tricks. Video on Youtube Here:
You can also check some home lab articles, our vSphere 6 page or different categories on our blog. There is also an ESX Virtualization ESXi lab which runs vSphere 6.5U1 and 2-node VMware vSAN 6.6.1 All flash stretched cluster configuration with a Witness hosted on a separate host.