Last week I did a VMware vSphere and VMware View 4 to 5 upgrade. The ESXi servers for the VMware View environment uses Fusion-IO (HP IO Accelerators) PCI flash cards for there non-persistent VDI pools. After the upgrade to vSphere 5.1 I imported the latest Fusion-IO drivers and created a baseline in …
Continue ReadingIn my lab environment I still have a Windows XP with the vSphere Client 5.5 installed. When I try to connect with the vSphere Client or vSphere PowerCLI it faisl to connect to the vCenter Server 5.5 or vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5. The following errors appears (The OS has a Dutch language …
Continue ReadingWith vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) 5.5 there is no requirement for a SQL database anymore. SSO 5.5 uses a own VMware Directory Service (VMdir) database. So after the upgrade to SSO 5.5, the Single Sign-On 5.1 database and users can be removed. This is a manual process. In SQL Management Studio remove …
Continue ReadingAfter configuring the network portion for your ESXi servers you need to test if the redundancy is working as accepted. From the ESXi layer you can bringing down/up one or more uplinks to test the network resilience. No longer you need to pull out the UTP cables. Since ESXi5 this can be done by using …
Continue ReadingVMware has released the beta the public beta of VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1. This beta supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V or Hyper-V Server 2012. Another new capability is to migrate VMs from your Hyper-V to your VMware vSphere environment . The VMware vCenter …
Continue ReadingThe option to remove a ESXi host from a vSphere Distributed Switch can be difficult to find. Here are the steps listed to remove an ESXi host from a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS): Open the vSphere client Click Home and the Networking icon in the inventory tab Select the desired VDS (2) Select the …
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 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 ReadingLast week Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter RC is released. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter is a stand-alone tool that makes it possible to convert and deploys VMware based VMs to Hyper-V based VMs. It’s coverts the VMware VM and virtual disks (VMDK) to Hyper-V VMs and Virtual Hard Disks …
Continue ReadingAt a customer I was unable to join a domain when deploying a template from vCenter using a guest customization specification. This only happened with Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 templates. To solve this problem, you need the do the following in the guest customization specification: Enter the FQDN …
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