The first of April VMware announced the list of VMware vExperts 2014. I’m really pleased to announce that I was included in the list and can appoint myself as a VMware vExpert 2014. This is my second year with the program and i would like to thank all of you that contributes to the VMware community …
I’m really happy to announce that my blog has received a new blog sponsor. Acronis International GmbH (Acronis) has decided to see what a VCDX56 blog sponsorship can offer. Acronis is a software company that makes computer backup, disaster recovery, bare-metal restore, system deployment, and storage management products for Windows and Linux systems. Acronis Backup for …
This post falls under the category “very annoying things that i usually ignore”. During the past weeks i have been installing vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 several times for different customers and this afternoon was no different. This product is really taking off for the moment. Based on the Windows Server (used for the vCAC IaaS …
I usually do not write any advertising blog posts and even if this one is pretty close i do not consider it as an advertising blog post. This is just an excellent chance for you as a VDCX56 reader to win a trip around the world where you fly business class:) I found out about …
Today Eric Siebert together with John Troyer, David Davis and Rick Vanover presented the result from his yearly Top vBlog voting and it is with great happiness i announce i was voted #18 among the 320 blogs included in the voting. On top of that, and even better, my blog was voted #1 in the category new “Favorite …
Updated 2014-04-14: Today i received feedback from others who have seen the same problem: Darren Goff who reported this was caused by incorrect time in the vCAC Appliance. Brice Dereims who reported this happens 90 days after the installation. Admin account locked. I have not seen this issues myself but it might be workt investigating if/when you …
Blog post updated 2014-03-26: Today i received a message from VMware Product Engineering telling me that the default behavior in vSphere 5.5 is to entering the full child domain before the username meaning this was expected. However, i have encountered that if you type the entire child domain name before the userid (in my case xy.vcdx56.commagnus) …
I was just informed that my blog has been added to the Planet V12n web site and it means my blog posts are automatically added to the Planet V12n web site. About Planet V12n “The Best Virtualization Blogs From Around The Planet. Keep up with the global virtualization conversation with Planet V12n, where we collect …
This will be the second technical blog post not created by myself, this one is made by Göran Jansson and Roger Jansson working at ARJ Disctributions and will cover the installation and initial configuration process for PHD Virtual Reliable DR 3.3. This blog post will not only be created by two guest bloggers, it will also …
Today, March 13 2014, i have been a blogger for a year. During this time i have published 113 blog posts and that is much more than i expected when i started. As i have mentioned earlier i write blog posts of architectural and technical challenges i’m facing during my day to day work In …
Last week i was phoned by a customer who was trying to setup an internal vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 SP1 proof of concept (POC). First of all, i don’t think we should call these things POC anymore since the vCAC concept has been proven over and over again. Definitely worth using a different name …
Today, March 11, VMware released the vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 and ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and some new enhancements includes: vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in, is now available in vSphere Web Client vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 ESXi 5.5 Update 1 includes support for VMware Virtual SAN. I have …
It is really easy to install a vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) plugin but not as easy to uninstall a plugin since you can’t do it from the use interface (UI) where you install and manage your plug-ins. However, uninstalling a vCO plugin is not something i have to do on a daily basis but it happened …
Today (2014-03-03) Infinio released version 1.2 of their NFS storage accelerator which is an in-memory global cache shared and de-duplicated across the entire vSphere cluster . This version has support for vSphere 5.5 and that is great news since many of my customer has upgraded to vSpehre 5.5. I truly believe this will increase the number …
I recently published the blog post “Create multiple VMs using PowerCLI” and as i mentioned in the post i thought the next request would be a PowerCLI script to create multiple VMs from an existing vSphere virtual machine (VM). It just took a few days before the request reached my email inbox. I actually received a few …
A few days ago i published a blog post about how you can “Add vCenter Orchestrator as a vCloud Automation Center endpoint” which you can read here. I used the vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) included in the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) appliance which includes the vCAC vCO plugin. If you want to add vCO as an vCAC …