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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…
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vCloud Automation Center 6 Certificates A to Z
While working on delivering vCAC 6 engagements, I have noticed that getting all the certificates required in place has always required me to jump across different information sources between VMware documentation, blogs, & other consultants work. For that I have decided to put this guide together which cover the certificates process for a new vCAC…
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Chance to Win Google Glass from Veeam
As usual Veeam not only offering great products, but they have a great marketing team that always spoil us with new type of give away. This time they are offering Google Glass for the winner of their three sessions below attendees, and there will be 15 Pizza coupons per session. That means you will have…
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How to fix: vCAC 6 AD Login is very slow
While working at a customer site with a pretty decent size Active Directory where they have implemented an Empty root structure, vCAC login through Single Sign On when using Active Directory accounts were pretty slow. It took up to 10-15 minutes at time per login attempt. The customer had a multitiered domain in a single…
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What’s New in StarWind SAN V8
StarWind SAN V8 RC has just been released with a lot of new features. Below is a summary of what to look for in this release: Log-structured File System: • VAAI UNMAP command implemented. • Internal structures changed to ensure compatibility with upcoming updates. • Improvements made for operations with VSS providers. Flash cache: •…
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Warning: The current browser that you are using is not supported for use with vCAC 6.0
After setting up vCloud Automation Center 6.0.1 for one of my clients, I was able to access the vCAC portal using my Firefox browser with no problem what so ever. After I have finished the configuration of vCAC and turned the setup to the customer to try it from his machine, he did not have…
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Win Free VMworld Trip with Veeam
I am sharing this news, as I am sure many of you are looking for a free way to get to VMworld, and Veeam is offering a few of you a chance to do that. They are even offering a chance to Win a Google Glass. Sorry Apple, but I would rather the Google Glass…
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Vote For Your Favorite Virtualization Blog
It is that time of the year again where you can vote for your favorite blogs at: vsphere-land.com. It is a great way to show your appreciation to your favorite blogs and bloggers who you benefited from their blog posting. Remember most bloggers including myself are doing this on their spare time, and don’t get…
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vCenter Appliance fsck failed
While I have been working with a customer on upgrading their infrastructure to vSphere 5.5, they had a power outage during the night which got their full virtual infrastructure down including storage (Not sure what the story with their UPS/Power generator). After they have brought their virtual infrastructure backup up both their vCenter Appliance and…
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vSphere Data Protection Advanced Licensing your hosts
I have seen a consistent growth lately in the number of my customers that shift to using vSphere Data Protection (VDP). I guess with VDP standard edition being a freebie nonetheless all the powerful features it come up with has made it an easy choice for many customers in the SMB market. VDP standard comes…
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vCenter Single Sign On 5.5 Whats New
vCenter Single Sign On has a considerable amount of changes in vSphere 5.5, with few major ones. Many of these changes have went undetected or unnoticed by the Virtual Infrastructure Admins. If you have deployed vSphere 5.5 and missed these changes or planning to install vCenter SSO 5.5 and want to learn what has changed…
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vCenter Server Appliance Error: failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service
While working with VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5, I needed to change the IP Address of the appliance as my customer were changing their IP scheme. It was quite to go to the VMware vCSA then to the network tab then Address tab and change the IP Address. After rebooting the appliance to ensure the…
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vSphere Data Protection error – operation failed due to existing snapshot
After I have helped one of my customers deploy VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced to replace their old VMware Data Recovery, and helped them schedule their environment for backup, we came back the next day to find out that few VMs have failed with the following error: “VDP: operation failed due to existing snapshot”. As…