With 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 ReadingAfter configuring the network portion for your ESXi servers you need to test if the redundancy is working as accepted. From the ESXi layer you can bringing down/up one or more uplinks to test the network resilience. No longer you need to pull out the UTP cables. Since ESXi5 this can be done by using …
Continue ReadingVMware has released the beta the public beta of VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1. This beta supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V or Hyper-V Server 2012. Another new capability is to migrate VMs from your Hyper-V to your VMware vSphere environment . The VMware vCenter …
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 ReadingAbout a year ago VMware introduced the vRAM entitlement (see post VMware vSphere 5 Licensing explained ). Today at VMworld 2012, VMware announced the end of the vRAM entitlement in VMware vSphere 5 and 5.1! In vSphere 5 and 5.1 the licensing will be per physical processor. Each physical processor …
Continue ReadingIn an earlier blog post (found here ) I mentioned that it is time for a new homebrew whitebox based on the Intel X79 chipset. With the X79 chipset it is possible to install 64GB of memory (8 x 8 GB). Because the 8 GB DIMMs are expensive on the moment, I decided to use 8 x 4GB DIMMs (total 32GB). I …
Continue ReadingWhen looking for performance data in vCenter 4.1 from the past week, month or year, I got the message “Performance data is currently not available for this entry”. Only real time data is visible in vSphere client. In the vCenter Service Status the warning “Performance statistics rollup from Past Day …
Continue ReadingWhen using a whitebox lab environment at home and like to test for example vSphere 5, vCloud Director, VMware View and MS Hyper-V (nested in VMware vSphere you need a lot of processor power and memory. In almost all whitebox lab environment the processor power is not the problem but the amount of …
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 …
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