vSphere 5.1 U2 released
On 16 January VMware released Update 2 for vSphere 5.1. There are few interesting features such as vCenter server on Windows 2012 R2 and few more....
January 18, 2014
Category: vSphere 5
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 has been released with new features: Support for virtual machine hardware version 10 (62TB disks, virtual SATA controllers, etc.) Support for...
October 24, 2013
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
vCAC 5.2 series – physical server
vCloud Automation server does not provision only virtual instances but also physical server. Supported vendors are: Cisco UCS – represents pool of machines UCS Manager 2.0...
September 12, 2013
vCAC 5.2 series – Installation Part 4
Installing Self-Service Portal Web site. Installation package is located in vCAC-52-Extensibility.zip package. Extract zip package and run as Administrator –> vCAC-SelfService-Setup.exe follow installation wizard. The Welcome...
September 10, 2013
Nested ESXi 5.5
For a past week I’ve seen many time question about nested ESXi 5.5 on ESXi 5.1 so I decided to blog about. Basically you have to...
September 8, 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
vSphere 5.5 – what’s new – ESXi
Hypervisor enhencments Hot-Pluggable SSD devices – since SSD devices are more and more popular in ESXi deployments in vSphere 5.5 one can change SSD drive while...
September 3, 2013
vSphere 5.5 – what’s new – storage
On VMworld 2013 in San Francisco VMware announced new version of vSphere in 5.5 version. what’s new in storage ? Many things such a vSAN, large VMDK...
September 2, 2013
