Today i ran into a problem during a vCloud Automation Center 6.0 IaaS component installation. The installation didn’t actually start, just got an error mesage after finishing the initial wizard meaning no component is installed. We used the Complete instllation option because this was a proof of concept environment and we didn’t see any reason …
There are a few of my customer still running vSphere 5.1 U1 and one of them reported an issue related to the VMFS Heap Size (VMFS3.MaxHeapSizeMB) configuration a few days ago. Keep in mind that my customer upgraded to U1 from a previous vSphere 5.1 version meaning that the old VMFS3.MaxHeapSizeMB was retained at 80 MB …
It is with great pleasure i announce that my blog has received yet another sponsor. VMTurbo has decided to see what a VCDX56 blog sponsorship can offer. VMTurbo provides a unique approach to controlling complex and virtual cloud environments by assuring application workloads have the resources they need to meet service levels, while ensuring that the …
A few days ago i came across a VMware vSphere, version 5.5, stretched cluster implementation that caught my attention. Background My customer uses the following setup: 8 ESXi version 5.5 hosts. 4 placed in Datacenter01 and 4 placed in Datacenter02 2 Storage systems. 1 storage node placed in Datacenter01 and 1 storage node placed in Datacenter02 …
The new element, i announced in this blog post, where my blog sponsors get the chance to publish their own blog post starts now. As i mentioned, there will be one slot open for blog sponsors per month and the January one is covered by SolarWinds. —————————————————————————————————– Application-aware Virtualization Management A virtualization infrastructure, when not …
It is with great pleasure i announce that my blog has received yet another sponsor. PHD Virtual Technologies (PHD Virtual) has decided to see what a VCDX56 blog sponsorship can offer. PHD Virtual has offered data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006 and focuses on delivering Recovery Management and Cloud Provider solutions. You’ll find the PHD Virtual product overview here. …
Today i have changed the theme on the blog. The main reason for this change is to make it possible to only show a few lines per blog post on the first page. Hopefully the new wordpress Bromley theme will give you a better overview. This has been requested by a few of my readers so i …
Well, this will be a very short summary of my first year as a blogger. When i started this blog back in March 213 i decided to write about the architectural and technical challenges i’m facing during my day to day work. This means my blog posts might not unique but they are something i …
This post was updated 2014-01-22 since a KB solving the problem has been published by VMware and can be found here There is a first time for everything and this will be the first blog post on vcdx56.com with content not experienced by myself. I received this very useful information from a colleague, Patrik Ruthberg, …
VMware vCenter Server 5.5.0b, for both the Windows based vCenter Server and the virtual appliance vCenter Server, was released 2013-12-22. The software can be downloaded from various locations on the VMware download site depending on your license but this link directs you to the VMware vSphere section of the VMware download site. I have identified …
It is with great pleasure i announce that my blog has received yet another sponsor. SolarWinds has decided to see what a VCDX56 blog sponsorship can offer. SolarWinds is a company that has been around for quite some time, since 1999, and it focuses on delivering products that makes the IT administrators job easier. The company was …
It is with great pleasure i announce that my blog has received yet another sponsor. Infinio Systems has decided to see what a VCDX56 blog sponsorship can offer. Infinio is a company delivering a solution for accelerating NAS storage performance for virtual environments. While there are a few companies out there who use flash as the …
A customer contacted me a few days ago and wanted a operational procedure for moving a vCloud Director (vCD), version 5.5, based virtual machine (VM) from one vSphere cluster to another vSphere cluster. My customer uses vSphere version 5.5 and had one major requirement that had to be taken into account. The VM has to …
A very much awaited announcement were released today by VMware, VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 is now general available. The release notes are available here so i only included, copied from the release notes, the headlines in the blog: Improvements in Infrastructure as a Service Unified Service Catalog for Infrastructure, Desktop, and Application Services …
For those of you using a backup and restore solution based on a software backup and restore client installed in each virtual machine it is a good idea to secure the virtual machine configuration file, the .vmx file. Backing up the data from within the virtual machine is not enough for making a restore process …
This will be a short summary from todays Nordic VMUG Conference held at Bella Center in Copenhagen. First of all, there were about 600 attendees and that is a really great number. There was even an exhibition area where the sponsors presented their products, the concept of the VMworld event but in small scale. Really good …