Last week I did a VMware vSphere and VMware View 4 to 5 upgrade. The ESXi servers for the VMware View environment uses Fusion-IO (HP IO Accelerators) PCI flash cards for there non-persistent VDI pools. After the upgrade to vSphere 5.1 I imported the latest Fusion-IO drivers and created a baseline in …
Continue ReadingPHD Virtual Backup is a backup and recovery solution for VMware and Citrix environments. PHD Virtual Backup version 6 is released. We tested this new version with VMware vSpher What’s new in PHD Virtual Backup version 6: PHD Virtual Backup version 6.0 contains the following major enhancements: PHD …
Continue ReadingIt depends on the features you need. If you want for example use the “Changed Blocked Tracking (CBT)” feature, you need at least hardware version 7. In ESX 3.x hardware version 4 is introduced, in vSphere 4.x hardware version 7 is introduced and in vSphere 5 hardware version 8 is introduced. Here is …
Continue ReadingWhen you start the Remote Tech Support (TSM) service on a VMware ESXi host a warning and the following message will appear: Remote Tech Support Mode (SSH) for the host … has been enabled When the warning appears some Admins get a little nervous. Since VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 2 and VMware ESXi 5 the …
Continue ReadingWith the announcement of VMware vSphere 5 a complete new license model is introduces. In VMware vSphere 4 the licensing model was per physical processor based on the number of cores per CPU and the physical memory. The VMware vSphere 5 license model is based per physical processor and the allocated …
Continue Readinghen doing a health check I found the following error during the remove if a snapshot in vCenter: Unable to access file since it is locked There is a problem when committing the snapshot after the vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) backup of the VM. In the snapshot manager in vCenter there was …
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