vSphere 6.0 Home Lab Upgrade (Issues faced)
Finally I could find some quality time to spend with my lab (quality implies break and fix, no?) so one of my bad habits is that I try to install/update/upgrade things without reading about...
Category: vCenter
vCenter Server 5.5 u2 hangs on Installing Directory Services
Well I am playing around with something related to the vCenter Server installation, so I wanted to install vCenter Server 5.5 u2 on a standalone non domain server. I deployed my Windows Server 2012...
vCenter Server High Availability with Microsoft Failover Cluster and DFS (Unsupported)
As on the first week of June sadly vCenter Server Heartbeat end of sale has been announced and customers whom have it already will still get their support till 2018 but for those who...
vCenter Log Insight Static IP Address (Not Supported)
Today I wanted to install the vCenter Log Insight on my VMware Workstation Right-click on the OVA Open with VMware Workstation Specify the name and location of the virtual machine. Accept the license. Power...
vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: Installing vCenter Server Heartbeat v6.6
This is a product that really is not given its proper credits, by customers at least whom do not see paying a bunch of k$s to protect their vCenter server properly, any way we...
VCAP5-DTA: Section 1: Objective 1.1
[Section 1 – Deploy View Installations and Upgrade Existing Deployments] Objective 1.1 – Deploy Highly Available View Installations: Configure highly available connectivity to the View environment Configure stateful and stateless load balancing for a...
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...
