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Tag: VMware vSphere

  • Call “HostDatastoreSystem.CreateVmfsDatastore” for object “ha-datastoresystem” on ESXi “xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” failed.

    While working with my home vSphere 5.1 lab the other day, I was trying to create a VMFS5 datastores on my local SATA disk. Each time I tried to do that I was just welcomed with the following error: Call “HostDatastoreSystem.CreateVmfsDatastore” for object “ha-datastoresystem” on ESXi “xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” failed. Please note xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx stand for my host…

  • vSphere 5.1 VMware Tools NTP Settings

    In earlier versions of VMware vSphere, many of us used to configure VMware tools settings by double clicking VMware tools inside the guest OS. This was most often used to configure NTP in the Virtual Machine VMware tools. Just to remind you of what that looked like: Alright if you try to do the same…

  • Microsoft Exchange 2010 is definetly supported on VMware vSphere

    I know most of my readers are already aware that Microsoft Exchange & Microsoft SQL have been supported on VMware vSphere for quite long time. In fact, there is so many companies are using it at unbelievably large production scale. Though today while going back from my customer site by train, I was talking to…

  • vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 5) – vSphere Web Client Step by Step

    Alright now that you got your vCenter 5.1 up and running & ready to start managing it. I know vSphere Client will be the first thing to come to your mind in here, but its worth mentioning that all the new features in vSphere 5.1 is only included in the vSphere Web Client not the…

  • vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 4) – vCenter Service Step by Step

    As covered in my previous three posts, vCenter Service is the third component to be installed. As a reminder the order of installing vCenter 5.1 components is as follow: Single Sign On ==> vCenter inventory Service ==> vCenter Service. In this post, I will demonstrate in a step by step fashion how to install the…

  • vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 3) – vCenter 5.1 Inventory Service Installation

    In my previous two posts, I have demonstrated how to prepare the databases required for the different vCenter 5.1 components(SSO, vCenter Service, & Update Manager)  as well how to install vCenter Single Sign On. If you have not went through these earlier two posts, then you will need to follow them before proceeding with this…

  • vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 2) – Single Sign On Installation

    During the installation of vCenter 5.1, you will need to install 3 components in the following order: Single Sign On => Inventory Service => vCenter Service. In a new installation I would normally install the Web Service after installing the vCenter Service, though during an upgrade I would install the web service right after the…

  • vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 1) – Preparing the Databases

    After the introduction of vSphere 5.1, there seemed to be a lot of fuzz about the installation of the new vCenter components. I believe most of the hype was caused about how the initial vSphere 5.1 release behaved differently against expired certificates from how vSphere version prior to 5.1 behaved. In earlier releases, vCenter has…

  • VMware vSphere Free Compliance Checkers

    While data security has always been one of the top CEOs concerns for the past decade or so, more compliance regulation has been hitting organizations doors every year. After organizations have mastered how to secure their physical environment by using physical segregation, Virtualization came around and changed the security game. Now organizations has to ensure…

  • VMware vSphere 5.1 new vCenter architecture & Single Sign on

    With the introduction of vSphere 5.1, VMware has introduced a new vCenter architecture & SSO ( Single Sign On). This is seems to be the first thing being noticed by customers when deploying vSphere 5.1 as its not exactly what they used to. Prior to vSphere 5.1 all vCenter services were installed at once on…

  • Top 5 vSphere Best Practices missed by the Enterprise

    As part of my job as a consultant at VMware, I get to deliver Health Check & Architecture Reviews engagement on regular basis. I have found quite few best practices that is generally missed by most & thought to document the top 5 in here for everyone to benefit. Maybe on the next round more…

  • How to Export your VM Inventory list from vCenter

    Time will come when you need a quick inventory of the VMs in your vCenter with their IPs, Computer name, power on status & all these simple things. You might just need that sheet b/c you need to keep an inventory of what you have or just the for the simple cause that the management…

  • Virtual Machines vDS Network Interfaces configuration in VMX file is lost upon removing it from inventory

    Note: This is no longer an issue in vSphere 5.1. Today while doing a manual DR failback test at one of the customers sites where they use Virtual Distributed Switches, I have noticed when removing/adding a Virtual Machine to inventory it lose the configuration for its network interface of which port group its connected to…

  • VMware VMotion Improvement in VMware vSphere 5

    As most bloggers when vSphere 5 arrived decided to cover the improvement on VMware HA, as it was totally revamped. I have decided to cover up the improvement on VMware VMotion in vSphere 5. VMware VMotion had as much improvement in vSphere 5 as VMware HA had, but seems to be forgotten by most bloggers.…

  • vSphere 5 is now available for download

    With all the enhancements and new features were announced with vSphere 5, many of you waiting patiently for vSphere 5 to be available for download. The good news that the long waited vSphere 5 has been announced available for download yesterday. You can download the vSphere 5 installers at: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0 vSphere 5 has a tons…