Things to keep in mind if upgrading to vSphere 5.5
If you are a super early adopter there are a few KB articles that you will want to keep an eye on if you are looking to go to vSphere 5.5 already. Thanks to Marcel @ Lumenate for pointing these…
Category: vSphere 5
My frustration with Hyper-V, do you really save anything?
The story of a difficult experience with Hyper-V If you follow my Twitter feed you knew this article was coming… After spending about 3 hours on the phone with a customer trying to help them get their CSV (Cluster Shared…
Spring Cleaning Tips for your VMware Environment
I just wanted to throw out some tips that I run into from time to time in customer environments. These are just meant to be a quick reminder of the things that I find are missed during installations. If you…
Installing HP CIM drivers on ESXi 5.0
What is CIM? CIM means Common Information Model, and they allow for communication between the ESXi Operating System and the hardware sensors. Why do I need it? Normally I am a big fan of using the HP ESXi ISO image…
VMware SRM5 and vSphere Replication
With the release of VMware vSphere 5 also came the release of many other products, one of those was Site Recovery Manager 5. Site Recovery Manager is an add-on product to vSphere that allows for a disaster recovery plan to…
Tweaking VMware’s Round Robin Settings
One thing that should always be done when using 1Gb iSCSI is setting up Multipathing, and in all version of vSphere they have included NMP or Native Multi Pathing. With NMP comes a path selection method called Round Robin which…
HP ESXi Hosts continually disconnect from vCenter
Today I set up three new ESXi 5.0 hosts with the HP Branded ESXi media, all went well until I joined the hosts to vCenter. After joining and registering with the vCenter server then became disconnected. I tried to manually…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 5: vCD Installation
Now that we have our hardware all in place, vSphere 5 Installed, our database configured and running, and vShield deployed we are ready to build our vCloud Director virtual machine, which will be Red Hat Linux, and get vCD setup…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 4: vCD Database Prep
One part that I forgot to mention that is in the vCloud Installation Guide is preparing your database server for use with vCloud Director. This isn’t a difficult process if you know how to use SQL. Because I decided to…
vSphere 5.0 Ready for Download
Last night VMware officially released vSphere 5.0 for download. If you have a current support contract you can head on over to VMware.com and start flooding your internet connection. Or if you are not already a VMware customer just sign…