This post will detail all the steps required to install vCenter 5.5a on to a Windows 2012R2 guest machine, I should add that at the time of writing 2012R2 isn’t on the supported OS list and that there is an… Continue Reading
So with the release of ESXi 5.5 I decided to follow my previous instructions and upgrade my hosts using the esxcli commands. 1. Place the Host into Maintenance Mode and ensure that there are no running VM’s on the host.… Continue Reading
VMware have announced updates to their vCloud Suite product. VMware have extended the number of products that are included in the vCloud Suite 5.5, this includes vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) availability in all editions rather than just the Enterprise Suite.… Continue Reading
VMware has just announced the vSphere 5.5 product at VMworld 2013. Here are the new features and enhancements. vSphere ESXi Hypervisor Enhancements Hot-Pluggable SSD PCI Express (PCIe) Devices Support for Reliable Memory Technology Enhancements for CPU C-States Virtual Machine Enhancements… Continue Reading
After a recent upgrade to our vCenter 5.1 infrastructure we discovered that we were getting the following error when trying to use the log browser component of the web client. Having tried a number fixes from the usual sources (Derek… Continue Reading
With the change to my Home Lab environment recently I decided to take a fresh look at my storage capabilities and came to the conclusion that whilst the home brew solution was nice I now wanted something a little more… Continue Reading
During the recent vForum event at Wembley I had an interesting meeting with Condusiv Technologies (formally Executive Software\ Diskeeper). They were showing off the latest release of V-Locity VM. V-locity VM is classed as a Performance Accelerator which offers benefits… Continue Reading
During a recent VMware Converter P2V conversion I ran across an issue where I was getting an error and the conversion process would fail to obtain hardware information from the source machine. I could install the client just fine but… Continue Reading
Came across a little issue today when trying to install the vShield Endpoint on to a number of our ESXi hosts today, with the hosts evacuated I clicked on the vShield tab to install the Endpoint onto the host and… Continue Reading
I recently had to install ESXi onto a server without a cdrom drive fitted, the quickest and easiest method for me to do this was installing ESXi using VMware Player or Workstation and installing it directly onto the USB key.