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vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 limitations
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 has been gaining huge attraction lately, especially with many of the major limitations affecting the vCenter Appliance in previous verions have been lifted. This is including the limitation where it was only supposed to support 5 hosts and 50 VMs when using the embedded database. In fact the all shiny…
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Deploying VMware vCenter 5.5 Appliance
Lately for most of my labs and even for many customers I have been deploying the VMware vCenter 5.5 Appliance, as it is much quicker to install and give less chances for error. Further it saves customers a Windows license and not to mention being much easier to maintain, patch and upgrade. Further, with many…
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VMware vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in is here
VMware has just announced vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in which will help VMware customers manage their VMs in VMware Hybrid Service the same way they manage their vSphere environment right from inside their vSphere Client (Only Web Client as you would guessed), which should increase administrators efficiency and reduce the time of learning a…
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Qtree SnapMirror warnings and limitations with SRM
While setting up SRM with NetApp 6290 at a customer site, my customer was using Qtrees and Qtree SnapMirror which caused us few issues. If you are setting up SRM and using NetApp Qtree SnapMirror, there is quite few warnings, limitations, and best practices that you will need to be aware of. I have listed…
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SRM Error: XmlValidateException Element SourceDevice is not vaild for content model: Source Device.
While setting up vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.3 with NetAPP 6290 filer, & in particular at the stage where I try to enable the array pair and after I fixed the timeout error I have documented in the following post: SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete discoverDevice Command, I have faced…
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SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete discoverDevice Command
While setting up vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.3 with NetAPP storage, & in particular at the stage where I try to enable the array pair I was welcomed with the following error: SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete ‘discoverDevice’ Command. This SRM SRA Adapter error is not limited…
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Service failed to start
While installing VMware SRM 5.0.3 at a customer site, both nodes installations have given me the following error right before the installation completion: Failed to start service. Details: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Service failed to start. Check that all required Windows services are running. View the server log for more information. Press Retry to…
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VMware SRM NetAPP SRA required user permissions
While setting up VMware SRM for a customer lately with a NetAPP filer, I have faced the challenge where the customer wanted to use the minimum required permissions for the user the Solution Replication Adapter (SRA) use to connect to the NetApp filer. At minimum the customer wanted to use a different account from root…
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vCloud Director VM Customization joining domain fail
Joining VMs to the domain is a part of vCloud Director VMs customization process. While configuring the guest customization screen for your VMs in vCloud Director to join the domain is a straight forward & easy process, there seems to be many situations where VMs just fail to join the domain as a part of…
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Assign Domain Users vCenter Single Sign Administrator Privileges
If you have upgraded your Virtual Infrastructure to vSphere 5.1 or 5.5, you are already aware of the addition of Single Sign On. When installing Single Sign On, a default user Admin@System-Domain is created for you with a password that you have assigned to it during the vCenter Single Sign On installation. The Admin@System-Domain user…
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VMworld 2013 Hands-on Labs is now Available Online
Friends and Fans of the VMworld Hands-on Labs, I have a great news for you. I am sure if you are like me, you did not get enough time at VMworld to do all the Hands-on Labs you planned to go through. Worry not, now you can take them online! They are available even for…
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VMware Onyx the easy way to generate vSphere Power CLI & vCO Java Script Code
Every vSphere admin will get to a day where he wants to automate particular tasks, though he always have to weight the benefits vs the time required to automate using a vSphere Power CLI script or implementing the vCO Java Script Code required. What if you can generate such scripts and automation procedure in no…
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VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5
With the continuous exponential growth of logs in the datacenter, it getting close to impossible to consume them the traditional way. This is no difference in a virtualized environment, where you have the logs for vCenter, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, OS of the VMs, Application logs, & so on. To help admins better digest and…
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Backup & Archive to the Cloud with PHD Virtual Backup 6.5
PHD Virtual has approached me for feedback on their upcoming PHD Virtual Backup 6.5. I have been granted access to an early beta version of the product to try it out, while they have added many enhancement to the product, the one that have got my attention the most is being able to send your…
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Software Defined Datacenter is a Game Changer
At VMworld, VMware will be blasting the world with its Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) story. While VMware is at the center of the Software Defined Datacenter story, the VMware Software Defined Datacenter offering could put VMware at the Center of the IT Universe. The Software Defined Datacenter story remind me a lot of VMware initial…