vCenter fails to start after DSN changes
I had to change user name and password for vCenter DB DSN entry. After change vCenter service fails to start. In a vCenter logs there was...
February 19, 2014
Category: vCenter Server
vCAC 6 series – Part 8 – Installing vSphere Agent
vCAC 6 – Installing vSphere Agent vCloud Automation Center uses the following types of agents to manage external systems: Hypervisor proxy agents vSphere, Citrix Xen Servers...
February 14, 2014
Upgrade to VMware vSphere 5.5 – Part 1
Upgrade infrastructure from vSphere 5.1 to vSphere 5.5 Scenario: 1x vCenter server (SSO, VUM, vCS, AutoDeploy, Web Client, inventory services) 1x MSSQL server 1 x vShield Manager 1...
October 4, 2013
vCAC 5.2 series – Provision VM on vSphere
Guide how to deploy windows VM on vCenter server compute resources. Step #1 – Create enterprise group and add compute resources to it Add vCenter resource...
September 25, 2013
vSphere 5.5 – simple installation
The easiest way to install VMware vSphere 5.5 is use simple installation option. It will install all major vSphere 5.5 components. Good thing is you do...
September 23, 2013
vSphere 5.5 – what’s new – vCenter
vCenter server is a central point of management for vSphere environments and in vSphere 5.5 VMware released few enhancements: Single Sing On – one can use...
September 6, 2013
vCAC 5.2 series – vCenter integration
vCloud Automation Center can communicate with several different virtualization platforms such as: VMware vSphere Microsoft SCVMM Citrix XEN server RedHat VE vCAC does communicate with platforms...
August 24, 2013
vCenter installation stuck on installing Orchestrator
I had a problem with installation of vSphere vCenter 5.1 U1 server on Windows 2008 R2 SP1. During installation process installer got stuck on Installing Orchestrator,...
July 25, 2013
vSphere Auto Deploy in homelab – Part2
Auto deploy configuration In order to provision servers there are few configuration steps which one has to perform. From vSphere client Home screen solution and Applications...
July 22, 2013
vSphere Autodeploy in homelab – Part1
If you don’t know vSphere autodeply you should immediately get on it 🙂 especially when you have homelab where things changes very quickly and many time...
July 20, 2013
