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 ReadingIn my lab environment I still have a Windows XP with the vSphere Client 5.5 installed. When I try to connect with the vSphere Client or vSphere PowerCLI it faisl to connect to the vCenter Server 5.5 or vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5. The following errors appears (The OS has a Dutch language …
Continue ReadingWith vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) 5.5 there is no requirement for a SQL database anymore. SSO 5.5 uses a own VMware Directory Service (VMdir) database. So after the upgrade to SSO 5.5, the Single Sign-On 5.1 database and users can be removed. This is a manual process. In SQL Management Studio remove …
Continue ReadingVMware has released a Network Port Diagram diagram for VMware Horizon View 5.2. This diagram covers an entire VMware View environment with protocols and port numbers used. In earlier blog posts I already create two small diagrams with protocols and port numbers used by VMware View: VMware Horizon …
Continue ReadingTo deliver IT as a Service, VMware has for the coming year(s) the following focus areas: Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). See the VMworld 2013 SDDC recap here Link End User Computing (EUC). See the VMworld 2013 EUC recap here Link vCloud Hybrid Services (vCHS) In this last blog post I dig deeper …
Continue ReadingTo deliver IT as a Service VMware has for the coming year(s) the following focus areas: Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). See the VMworld 2013 SDDC recap here. Link End User Computing (EUC) vCloud Hybrid Services (vCHS) In this blog post I dig deeper in End User Computing (EUC) announcements . In …
Continue ReadingLast week i attended VMworld Europe in Barcelona. The theme was “Defy Convention”. Here’s an overview of the VMware focus for the coming year(s): It’s all about delivering IT as a Service. IT as a Services gives the following answers: On-demand access to any device; Cost transparency; Any cloud, any …
Continue ReadingHere are some impressions of the partner day today.
Continue ReadingHere are some deployment tips and tricks for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA): The VMware vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux-based virtual machine. The VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is available as OVF/ OVA It based on Suse Linux Enterprise 11 64-bit Linked Mode, …
Continue ReadingUpdate: 09-09-2014: Today VMware released a new vSphere Client (vSphere Windows client). With vSphere Client 5.5.0 Build 1993072 (available with ESXi 5.5 Update 2) it is possible to edit hardware version 10 VMs settings. When editing a hardware version 10 VM it is only possible to edit hardware …
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