When logging in the vSphere Web Client login page the “Use Windows session Authentication” check box is grayed out. To solve this you need to install the Client Integration Plug-in. The Client Integration Plug-in provides: Access to the VM console Deploy OVF or OVA templates Transfer files with the …
Continue ReadingWhen using VMware Data Protection (VDP) 5.1 and want to backup Windows 2008 R2 VM’s you should disable application-consistent quiescing. On the moment the VADP API doesn’t support Windows 2008 R2 application-consistent quiescing. So be sure that servers that uses a database such as SQL and Exchange …
Continue ReadingUpdate February 22, 2013: William Lam created a clarification on the Zero-Down Time) VMware Tools Upgrade. Here is a quote from the post: Is there downtime when upgrading to future versions of VMware Tools? It depends. If one or more components have been updated since the last VMware Tools upgrade …
Continue ReadingBefore upgrading to vSphere 5.1 it is important to check your existing hardware, firmware levels, drivers, vSphere versions, other VMware products that integrates and third party software if it is compatible with vSphere 5.1. Here is a list of third party software and it’s support for vSphere 5.1 . …
Continue ReadingVMware released the first version (1.0) of the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager (MHM). MHM makes it possible to manage multiple heterogeneous hypervisors in VMware vCenter server. MHM supports only Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 as hypervisor! MHM requires vCenter …
Continue ReadingMigrating to a new fresh vCenter server using the vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) prior vSphere 5.1 is not a easy task. The VDS is part of the vCenter configuration. If you try to import hosts that have a VDS configuration to a new vCenter server the following warning will appear: The distributed …
Continue ReadingBefore starting the upgrading to version 5.1 of the vCenter Server, the following steps can be taken to be able to successfully upgrade. The first step is reading the upgrade guides. After the RTFM stuff check the following: Make sure the SQL Server authentication checkbox is set to SQL Server and …
Continue ReadingToday vSphere 5.1 is released. I did an upgrade of my existing vSphere 5 vCenter server. During the installation of the vCenter Single Sign On (SSO) software the following warning occurred: Error 29115: Cannot authenticate to DB. After this error the installation stops and the rollback begins. To …
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