After long break decided to continue vSphere networking series, today 2 x 10Gbps  NIC’s with standard and virtual distributed switches. Playing around with vSphere networking, 10Gbps network connectivity which becomes main stream in modern data centers. If you planning to deploy 10Gbps network my advice is buy VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus license and use Virtual Distributed Switches for networking configuration. vDS has awesome...

Quick guide how to prepare databases for vSphere 5.1 deployment. Part one focus on Microsoft SQL database which is most common database platform for vSphere deployments. Before vSphere 5.1 installation or upgrade three databases have to be ready: VMware vSphere 5.1 Single Sign-On VMware vSphere vCenter server VMware Update Manager vSphere 5.1 vCetner server DB Create  VMware vSphere vCenter database and user. Execute below script from...

To complete upgrade to vSphere 5.1 you need to complete few more steps, depends on design some of the can be skipped. Recommended: Upgrading VMware Tools Upgrade the Virtual Hardware for Virtual Machines Back Up the vCenter Single Sign On Configuration Upgrade datastore files system from VMFS3 to VMFS5 Upgrade VMware tools before upgrade of the Virtual Machine Hardware Optional: Install or Upgrade vSphere ESXi Dump Collector Install or...

One of they ways of upgrading to vSphere 5.1 is a Simple installation. Simple installation does install below services in exact order: vSphere SingleSignOn vCenter inventory services vCenter server Before upgrade make sure below requirements are met: Create a vCenter Single Sign-On database, unless you plan to install the bundled database. If you are using an existing database for Single Sign On, you must create a database user (RSA_USER)...

Earlier this year, Unitrends announced a new software-only product called Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) that protects virtual and physical environments both locally and in the cloud.  UEB is available as a virtual appliance integrated with both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, and offers all the advantages of their physical backup appliance solutions, but with the flexibility of a software-only deployment. What’s cool about it? ...