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Upgrading vCenter with vCenter Heartbeat
I have went through the upgrade process of vCenter 5.0 to vCenter 5.1 which was protected by vCenter heartbeat(Please note same process apply for upgrade to 5.5 as well). The process end up being more of uninstalling and re-installing vCenter heartbeat rather than upgrade to avoid the undesired behavior of SSO lockdown that can be caused…
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vCenter 5.5 Upgrade fails when installing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package prerequisite with the error: Error Code 3010
While at a customer site and trying to upgrade their vCenter 5.0 to 5.5, every time we tried to run the installer it ran for a bit then gave us the follow error: Then the following errors appeared in a log files that was opened automatically in a notepad. —————– Error start —————– Action 12:39:49:…
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vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 SSO Issues
While rebuilding my home lab to use the latest version of vCloud Automation Center, I have decided to rebuild it from scratch with the latest vCenter Server Appliance and ESXi. After deploying the vCenter Appliance 5.5c and going through the configuration, I wanted to join the appliance to my domain and allow users from my…
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Unitrends Virtual Backup 8.0 Sneak Peek
I have participated in the Unitrends Virtual Backup 8.0 (formerly PHD Virtual Backup) beta program, and Unitrends has been kind enough to allow me to share my finding with you on my blog. Please note while the screenshots below still show PHDVirtual logo, I believe these will be replaced with the Unitrends logo in the…
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VMware VCAP5-DCD fresh tips
Last Saturday, I have thought it is finally the time to attend the overdue VCAP5-DCD exam. After obtaining my VCDX4, I have decided to award my self some break of doing certification exams, which got me to push my VCAP5-DCD exam beyond what I originally anticipated. Last Monday, I looked at the availability of the…
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vCloud Automation Center and vCenter Appliance
Yesterday, I was asked twice if using our vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) with vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) is a viable option. As one of the two requests came from inside our VCDX family, It seems to be not a common knowledge, not when I get asked by another VCDX about it. I thought this seems…
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vCAC 6 Missing VM Actions
This problems seems to lately surface more than not when delivery a vCAC 6 Distributed installation. After you complete your vCloud Automation Center 6 installation without a hitch and you thought everything is working perfectly, you go to your Catalog Entitlements and try to assign Actions allowed and you notice that you have only few…
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Software Defined PBX
I remember the days when I used to live in an apartment building and when my analog home phone used to stop working due to a line problem, the first thing we used to suspect is one of my neighbor has missed up our building PBX wiring while fixing his phone line or installing a…
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vCAC 6 Service Unreachable – Reference error REPO404
While delivering a distributed install of vCloud Automation Center using exactly the same steps I have used for few previous engagements, & while the setup completed perfectly without any errors, accessing the infrastructure tab in vCAC has continuously reported the following error: —————————————————————————- Service Unreachable A required service cannot be reached at the expected address.…
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vCAC 5.2 to 6.x Construct Mappings
vCAC 5.x admins/architects might get surprised by vCAC 6.x construct naming and think VMware has abundant the constructs vCloud Automation Center used in the past. After a closer look though, you will notice these construct functionality is still the same as they used to be in 5.x and they were just renamed to fit the…
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vCloud Automation Center 6 Load Balancer configuration
Every Distributed vCloud Automation Center 6 installation involves configuring load balancing at several levels. As load balancers have historically been the responsibility of the network team, many virtualization/server admins are not comfortable with them. Further, if your load balancing request is not clear and detailed the network team will return the request back and ask…
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Application Director unable to login to cloud provider
I was delivering an engagement lately where I had to integrate VMware Application Director with vCloud Automation Center 6.0. I have got to the stage where I needed to connect App Director to a Cloud provider. Although I was certain, I have entered the correct information on the New Cloud Provider screen as shown below,…
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Vote for my VMworld Sessions!
VMworld Voting is here again. I have two sessions this year that made it to the voting stage. I would appreciate it if you can show your support and interest in these sessions and vote. Please vote at: http://www.vmworld.com/voting.jspa Below is an extract of both sessions: Session: 1304 Protect Your Cloud As the business world…
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Generating Certificates for vCAC 6 IaaS Web Server & Manager Service
This post will take you through the steps you will need to generate, request, and apply the certificates for both vCloud Automation Center 6 IaaS Web Server as well the Manager Service. Please note this is the third part of a three post vCAC 6 Certificates tutorial, where the first two posts can be found…
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Generating Certificates for the identity Appliance/vCAC Appliance
At this post, I will go through how you Generate and import the certificates in a step by step fashion for both the Identity and vCAC Appliance. Please note this post is the second part of a three post tutorial where you can find the other two posts at: First post: vCloud Automation Center 6…