16 days ago by sbeaver

I mentioned in my last post that I have started the process of preparing for my VCP5 exam that I need to have finished by the end of February. While I was watching the Trainsignal training video about installing and configuring vCenter, I got to thinking about how much vCenter had changed and mature ...

The Virtualization Practice - virtualizationpractice.com/blog · 91 references

29 days ago by Gabrie van Zanten

Normaly when installing a vSphere environment for new customers, I wait with entering the correct licenses until the environment is ready and can be moved to production. Until today I never ran into any issues with that since most of our customers buy Enterprise or Enterprise Plus edition. Today I d ...

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37 days ago by Gabrie van Zanten

When visiting customers I noticed that the VMware admin often doesn’t really know how much free space is left on the datastores and wether action is needed to free up space or get extra capacity. When I show them the datastore overview in the VI Client that shows the warnings and alerts for the data ...

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51 days ago by Gabrie van Zanten

Ever had it happen in your environment? Committing a snapshot on a VM fails and you can’t get your VM to boot again because there are disks missing. This could happen because when initiating Delete or DeleteAll snapshots, the snapshot details are deleted from Snapshot Manager, then the snapshot file ...

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57 days ago by Gabrie van Zanten

Today VMware released their Technical Preview of the VMware View PCoIP client for OSX. We’ve all been waiting for this since the release of VMware View 5 and today I finally got to test it on OSX. Of course I had to install it right away and run a test drive from work to my VMware View 5 lab at home ...

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59 days ago by Gerald

Auf einem Virtual Center in einer kleinen Umgebung war das Transaction Log der MSSQL-Datenbank auf 193GB angewachsen … eine ganze Menge, wenn man bedenkt dass die eigentliche Datenbank nur 4GB groß war. Ein paar Knowledgebase-Artikel von VMware lösten das Problem. Dieser Artikel weist darauf hin das ...

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92 days ago by Kevin Noall

One thing that I just learned overnight is that you really should keep an eye on the Snapshots in ESX/vSphere. We are running the AVVI backups from Backup Exec 2010, and it uses the vSphere storage APIs to do it's business. BE has vSphere run a snapshot by calling the API and then it grabs [...]

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120 days ago by Gabrie van Zanten

In my previous post on VMware vSphere5 Auto deploy I explained how to setup an auto deploy environment. This is great for initial setup and to deploy your hosts, but what when an update is released by VMware? The easiest thing is to just delete the deploy rules and recreate them which is ok for a sm ...

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121 days ago by Gabrie van Zanten

When preparing your Virtual Infrastructure environment for vSphere 5 and vCenter 5 you also need to think of all the vCenter applications that are dependent on vCenter. One of them is vCenter Heartbeat. To be able to run vCenter Heartbeat on vCenter 5 you will need to upgrade vCenter Heartbeat to ve ...

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129 days ago by Root

Today one ESX 3.5 Server connected to a VSphere 4 Virtual Center has lost the connection to it. The SSH access to the server was active and all the VMs on it was working too. I tried to restart vmware-vpxa but the system remains unconnected although I tried several times manually reconnect. Finally ...

Routing the world - routingtheworld.wordpress.com · 1 reference