EMC Unisphere – Basics – Part 2 – Configure Hypervisor Information
I’ve added a new article to the articles page that discusses the steps required to configure EMC’s Unisphere with Hypervisor Information that helps with LUN – VM and VM – LUN mappings. If you don’t run...
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I’ve added a little 50-pager to the articles page on vCenter Server 5.1 installation and configuration. I was rebuilding my lab recently and thought it might be useful to document the steps required.
View ArticleVMware – Creating a 32bit DSN on a 64bit Windows machine (1010401)
I know I’ve covered this somewhere before – but this is just a reminder post for my own reference. When I was building my lab on vSphere 5.1 I had to configure a 32-bit DSN for VMware Update Manager-...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 1
I’ve been in the field recently, deploying one of my designs for a customer as our normal resources were tied up elsewhere. I’m rusty, to be sure, and haven’t done a lot of VMware deployment work...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 2
In a previous post, I mentioned I was doing a vSphere deployment sitting on some HP blades with SD cards installed. Because of this, I had to configure a few different parts of ESXi to point to network...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 3
This is my third post in a series of articles on some workarounds and things I had to look into when doing a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment. You In can find my previous articles here and here. In...
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VMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 4
I’ve been covering a few workarounds, mishaps and random things I’ve had to do during a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment. This is Part 4 in the series, and I hope some of it is useful. You can read my...
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EMC – VSI for VMware vSphere 6.5 Linked Mode Issue
As part of a recent deployment I’ve been implementing EMC VSI for VMware vSphere Web Client v6.5 in a vSphere 5.5 environment. If you’re not familiar with this product, it “enables administrators to...
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EMC – VSI for VMware vSphere 6.5 Linked Mode Issue – Redux
I wrote in a previous post about having some problems with EMC’s VSI for VMware vSphere 6.5 when running in vCenter 5.5 in Linked Mode. I spoke about deploying the appliance in just one site as a...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 5
I’ve come across a few slightly odd things that I hadn’t accounted for during a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment and thought it would be handy to document them. In this post (which is hopefully the...
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VMware – SRM 5.8 – You had one job!
The Problem A colleague of mine has been doing some data centre failover testing for a customer recently and ran into an issue with VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.8 running on vSphere 5.5 U2....
View ArticleVMware – vSphere Replication 5.8 and Custom Certificates
I waffled on some time ago about using proper certificates in your vSphere 5.5 environment. You can read about some of how to do that here. Eric has a nice summary of the steps here. I got a call...
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VMware – vSphere 6 Basics – Platform Services Controller
I’ve finally gotten some time to dig into the changes in vSphere 6 with regards to deployment options and architecture. I thought I’d do a few posts covering some key enhancements from VMware, paying...
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VMware – vSphere Basics – vCenter 6.5 Upgrade Scenarios
I did an article on the vSphere 6 Platform Services Controller a while ago. After attending a session on changes in vSphere 6.5 at vFORUM, I thought it would be an idea to revisit this, and frame it in...
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VMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 4
I’ve been covering a few workarounds, mishaps and random things I’ve had to do during a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment. This is Part 4 in the series, and I hope some of it is useful. You can read my...
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EMC – VSI for VMware vSphere 6.5 Linked Mode Issue
As part of a recent deployment I’ve been implementing EMC VSI for VMware vSphere Web Client v6.5 in a vSphere 5.5 environment. If you’re not familiar with this product, it “enables administrators to...
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EMC – VSI for VMware vSphere 6.5 Linked Mode Issue – Redux
I wrote in a previous post about having some problems with EMC’s VSI for VMware vSphere 6.5 when running in vCenter 5.5 in Linked Mode. I spoke about deploying the appliance in just one site as a...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 5
I’ve come across a few slightly odd things that I hadn’t accounted for during a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment and thought it would be handy to document them. In this post (which is hopefully the...
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VMware – SRM 5.8 – You had one job!
The Problem A colleague of mine has been doing some data centre failover testing for a customer recently and ran into an issue with VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.8 running on vSphere 5.5 U2....
View ArticleVMware – vSphere Replication 5.8 and Custom Certificates
I waffled on some time ago about using proper certificates in your vSphere 5.5 environment. You can read about some of how to do that here. Eric has a nice summary of the steps here. I got a call...
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