July 2014
Nested esx 5.5 host inside vSphere
since im trying to set up a home lab i needed to have more esx host. so i started to look into nested ESX host I found a lot of blogs out there for vSphere 5.0 and 5.1. but few for vSphere 5.5 finally this blog helped me on the right path https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970 for nested esx 5.0 look at these blogs from William Lam or Duncan Epping. http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/07/how-to-enable-support-for-nested-64bit.html http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/06/12/creating-a-nested-lab/ first i checked if my hardware supports nested hardware virtualization https://fqdn [...]
Vmware Certification Policies and Agreements
Vmware has changed his certification policy make sure you update you certificates in time. read more in the link below on the vmware site Certification Policies and Agreements
Prepare for VCAP-DCA5
hi everyone, I'm preparing for my VCAP-DC5.5 at the moment and I collected all the pdf files from the blueprint exam from the VMware site. If you are interested you can download them in the link below. good luck to everybody who is trying to get their VCAP-DCA VCAP-DCA5 pdf collection
Migrate standard vSwitch to Distributed vSwitch with iSCSI multipath
Hello everyone. I ran into some problems migrating from a standard vSwitch to a Distributed vSwitch, an I tought let me share it and maybe it can help someone. The reason was because I had multipathing configured for iSCSI connections on the standard vSwitch. (it’s up to you to decide if you want iSCSI on standard vSwitch or distributed vSwitch. There are a lot of blogs/discussions on the internet about this subject.)So here is what I did to make it [...]
VMWORLD 2014 EUROPE
Dont miss the VMWorld 2014 in Barcelona this year. its going to be very informative Register now
vShield Manager 5.x Change/Configure ip addres
When you deploy the vshield manager and want to change/ configure the ip address then you will need to run the setup command from the command line.open the console from vShield manager and login to the CLI interface (during ovf deployment you may used other passwords for admin CLI and enable admin)manager login: admin Password: defaultGo into enable modemanager> enable Password: default manager# setupFollow the setup questions and save the configuration at the end. the ip address is changed immediately. you don't [...]
Vmware vSphere beta program
Vmware opens a beta program to test the new vSphere release. anyone can join and test the product to expand new features and capabilities that improve IT's efficiency, flexibility and agility to accelerate your journey to cloud computing vSphere Beta Program Overview
Synergent Selects VMware NSX for Network Micro-Segmentation in the Data Center
Synergent Selects VMware NSX for Network Micro-Segmentation in the Data Center
P2V Windows 2000 server – vSphere 5.1
I came across a customer where 10 servers were still running on windows 2000 server I used VMware vSphere 5.5 so you can't use VMware convert 5 or higher because windows 2000 isn't supported anymore. here are the steps i made make sure all the windows 2000 server are on SP4 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=4127) and Update rollup 1 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18997) make sure you stop service that can cause problems ( antivirus, SQL, exchange, oracle,..) install VMware convertor 4.0.1 on your windows 2000 server [...]
Install Windows server ROK/OEM on Vmware
Install Windows server ROK/OEM on Vmware I know there is alot of other blogs about this but i always forget it until i look at the label and see ROK. but the blog is mostly a reminder for me, but feel free to use it Symptoms IBM Debug Assertion Failed! Program: x:toolsBIOSCHECK64.exe File: c:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0VCatlmfcincludeatlsmpstr.h Line:112 Expression: nRefs !=0 For information how your program can cause an assertion failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts. [...]