doOdzZZ's Notes Blog

2014 not a minute to spare! 0

2014 not a minute to spare!

Well 2013 has been a fruitful year from its very beginning to its very end, the most important event was the fact that I was able to meet the VMware community at VMWorld 2013...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why? 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why?

Sometimes you get odd requests from customers but usually they have a valid argument, in this case a customer had an intelligent UPS which performs a soft shutdown of the virtual machines in case...

VMware Horizon View 5.x: Load Balancing Connection Servers 0

VMware Horizon View 5.x: Load Balancing Connection Servers

The topic itself is intriguing and is open to more than a couple of hours discussion, but on the other hand we can briefly and smoothly delve into the options and we’ll end up...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5) 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Replace a vSphere Storage Appliance (5.5)

I was troubleshooting at a customer’s site and I found out that one of the appliances for some reason is corrupt from a configuration perspective, the cluster would always see the appliance offline when...

VMware VCAP5-DCA (A 4 hours dream) 4

VMware VCAP5-DCA (A 4 hours dream)

Late is the hour in which I have talked about my experience but I was waiting for my results and thankfully I did pass my VCAP5-DCA examination, let me share with you my experience...

Upgrade SCCM 2012 to SP1 0

Upgrade SCCM 2012 to SP1

Recently I’ve been involved in upgrading one of our customer’s CCM setup to SP1 and here is my notes regarding the upgrade: First (On each site): Disable the maintenance tasks Delete Aged Client Operations...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMware VSA 5.3 Troubleshooting Scenario [1] 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VMware VSA 5.3 Troubleshooting Scenario [1]

I’ve been recently involved in various VMware VSA implementations and I haven’t faced much problems with it, usually is something drastic happens to the vCenter server I would just reinstall the vCenter server and...