As virtualization consultant I got frequently questions about Windows Server 2012 licensing in virtual environments such as VMware and Hyper-V. Here is a short blog about Windows Server 2012 licensing in virtual environments. What about the Windows Server 2012 license: The Windows Server 2012 …
Continue ReadingAs the year 2012 is almost over, I like to thank everyone for supporting my blog! It was a good year. Google Analytics collected in 2012 the following statistics: 217,650 visitors 159,187 unique visitors 345,650 pageviews The busiest day was on march 1, 2494 visitors The most visitors came from the …
Continue ReadingUpdate February 22, 2013: William Lam created a clarification on the Zero-Down Time) VMware Tools Upgrade. Here is a quote from the post: Is there downtime when upgrading to future versions of VMware Tools? It depends. If one or more components have been updated since the last VMware Tools upgrade …
Continue ReadingThe following VMware releases are supported with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012: OS Supported versions Windows 8 32/64 Bits Workstation 9 Fusion 5.0 ESXi 5.0 U1 ESXi 5.1 Windows Server 2012 64 Bits Workstation 9 Fusion 5.0 ESXi 5.0 U1 ESXi 5.1 Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are supported on …
Continue ReadingHere are the steps outlined for upgrading the vSphere Data Protection (VDP) appliance. 1. Check the version of the VDP. SSH to the VDP appliance and use the following command: rpm –qa | grep vdr The current version of the VDP appliance is: vdr-1.1.53-53 2. The vSphere (web) client displays version …
Continue ReadingBefore upgrading to vSphere 5.1 it is important to check your existing hardware, firmware levels, drivers, vSphere versions, other VMware products that integrates and third party software if it is compatible with vSphere 5.1. Here is a list of third party software and it’s support for vSphere 5.1 . …
Continue ReadingVMware released the first version (1.0) of the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager (MHM). MHM makes it possible to manage multiple heterogeneous hypervisors in VMware vCenter server. MHM supports only Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 as hypervisor! MHM requires vCenter …
Continue ReadingESXCLI commands are very useful for configuring and troubleshooting ESXi servers. The vSphere vCLI 5.1 includes the following namespaces: Here is a small list of some examples of ESXCLI commands: esxcli system Show ESXi version and build esxcli system version get Enter Maintenance Mode esxcli system …
Continue ReadingMigrating to a new fresh vCenter server using the vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) prior vSphere 5.1 is not a easy task. The VDS is part of the vCenter configuration. If you try to import hosts that have a VDS configuration to a new vCenter server the following warning will appear: The distributed …
Continue ReadingI get a lot of questions from customers if the could use the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) in there production environments as replacement for the standard vCenter Server. With the standard vCenter Server is based on Microsoft Windows. you know for sure that all the other vSphere products …
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