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vSphere 5.5 – what’s new – storage
On VMworld 2013 in San Francisco VMware announced new version of vSphere in 5.5 version. what’s new in storage ? Many things such a vSAN, large VMDK files support and more read more for details....
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vSphere 5.5 – what’s new – ESXi
Hypervisor enhencments Hot-Pluggable SSD devices – since SSD devices are more and more popular in ESXi deployments in vSphere 5.5 one can change SSD drive while vSphere host is running (same as SATA or...
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vSphere 5.5 – what’s new – vCenter
vCenter server is a central point of management for vSphere environments and in vSphere 5.5 VMware released few enhancements: Single Sing On – one can use single sing on to authenticate to MSSQL server...
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vSphere 5.5 Generally Available
After long (too long) waiting VMware made vSphere 5.5 Generally Available for download . !!!! DOWNLOAD VMware vSphere 5.5 VMware vSphere 5.5 online documentation vSphere 5.5 Download Useful Links:...
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vSphere 5.5 – simple installation
The easiest way to install VMware vSphere 5.5 is use simple installation option. It will install all major vSphere 5.5 components. Good thing is you do not need to prepare vCenter SSO database Step 1 –...
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Changes in vCloud Suite Packages
When VMware released vSphere 5.5 packages at the same time VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 become available. When you compare vCloud Suite 5.1 editions with vCloud Suite 5.5 there are some important...
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Upgrade to vSphere 5.5 – Part 1
Upgrade infrastrcuture from vSphere 5.1 to vSphere 5.5 Scenario: 1x vCenter server (SSO, VUM, vCS, AutoDeploy, Web Client, inventory services) 1x MSSQL server 1 x vShield Manager 1x vCloud Automation...
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VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 has been released with new features: Support for virtual machine hardware version 10 (62TB disks, virtual SATA controllers, etc.) Support for RedHat KVM virtual...
View ArticleFor FREE, full version EMC ViPR available for download.
If you are interested in Software Define Storage or in general is SDDC (Software Define Datacentre) I’m pretty sure you would be very interesting to have a closer look at newest EMC baby – ViPR. You...
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vCAC 6 series – Part 8 – Installing vSphere Agent
vCloud Automation Center uses the following types of agents to manage external systems: Hypervisor proxy agents vSphere, Citrix Xen Servers Microsoft Hyper-V servers External provisioning...
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Unable to add Windows 2008 to AD
From time to time anyone can make stupid mistake, typo or just simply make a wrong assumption. This time it was me . Whenever I tried to deploy VM with Windows 2008 R2 or with Windows 7 it never got...
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vSAN 1.0 Announcement
source: vmware.com After many months of testing by more than 12000 beta testers – imagine 12k beta testers – incredible vSAN in version 1.0 will be available on week 10′th of march – next week along...
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vSphere 5.5 U1 released with vSAN 1.0 support
Yesterday VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 5.5, usually it wouldn’t be nothing special but this time along with update VMware released vSAN 1.0. Read more here about vSAN 1.0 vSAN What’s new...
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OpenSSL heartbleed bug – VMware products
Most probably you are aware about recent finding by The bug was independently discovered by security firm Codenomicon and a Google Security engineer. Heartbleed.com has a detailed explanation of the...
View ArticleAPD issue with NFS storage in vSphere ESXi 5.5 U1
A week ago folks twitted out about problem with NFS storage after upgrade to vSphere 5.5 U1 . I decided to blog out about it because not too many people are aware about the problem and still planning...
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Change vCenter server logs location
In vCenter server installed on Windows 2008 default location for its logs is in: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs However you can easily change it...
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Deploy vCenter Server Appliance 5.5
vCenter Server Appliance is Linux (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 64 bit) based appliance, which in a near feature should replace or become equivalent to vCenter server installed on Windows box –...
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Memory tuning on vCenter server appliance 5.5
Memory tuning vCenter server appliance After deployment of vCenter server appliance, memory tuning on vCenter server appliance is the first task you should do after deployment and configuration. In...
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Upgrade to VMware vSphere 5.5 – Part 2
Few months ago I blogged out quick how to updated core vCenter server (in version 5.1) components, see in a Upgrade to vSphere 5.5 Part 1vCenter SSOvSphere Web ClientvCenter servervCenter inventory...
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vSphere Web client and high DPI displays
I bought brand new DELL XPS 15 with High DPI screen – 3200 x 1800. Obviously, daily work with this resolution without changing size for icons and fonts and other items,would not be possible on a long...
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