So yesterday, 2015-01-27, VMware released vCenter Server U2d. Quite a lot of minor versions being released for this version but the latest one was actually U2b and not U2c. The latest release now includes the following components: vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d | 27 JAN 2015 | Build 2442329 vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d Installation …
Tag Archive: vCenter Server
OVF Deployment failed in vSphere Web Client
So a few days back while preparing for this weeks job i failed to deploy a OVF in my vSphere environment. I have had problems in the past with, back in the vSphere 5.1 days but haven’t seen it since. The error i received was: I was running the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) version …
Set vCenter Server Annotations via vCloud Automation Center deployment
How can i update the virtual machine (VM) Annotations field in vCenter Server when requesting a VM via vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA)? I have had this question a few times the last couple of weeks. This blog post will describe how you can solve this. The below figures shows …
Nutanix and vSphere deployment via vCenter Orchestrator
A few weeks back me and my colleagues Phil Ditzel and Artur Krzywdzinski was asked to create a customer demo including Nutanix and vSphere deployment. We decided to use vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) as the provisioning engine but this can be done via e.g PowerShell as well. The following steps are included in the vCD workflow we …
VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1b and vCloud Director 5.5.1.2 released
VMware released vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1b yesterday, 2014-06-12, and the main resolved issue i can see a lot of customers will benefit from is that the “OpenSSL libraries have been updated to versions openssl-0.9.8za, openssl-1.0.0m, and openssl-1.0.1h to address the CVE-2014-0224” The release notes can be found here and you can download the software here. VMware vCloud Director version …
Windows Server 2012 R2 preparation before vCenter Server 5.5 installation
This is a blog post dedicated to some of the steps you need to complete before installing vCenter Server 5.5 U1 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. Since i have written one or more of the below described actions several times in emails to customers i thought it was a good idea to create …
vCenter Server 5.5 won’t start
Last week one of my customers vCenter Server 5.5 crashed because the ESXi host where it was running crashed. Unfortunately the vCenter Server, running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, did not start when the virtual machine (VM) was brought up on another ESXi host by vSphere HA. This was a fresh installation of vCenter …
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 and VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 2 released
VMware released VMware vCenter Server 5.1 U2 and VMware ESXi 5.1 U2 yesterday. I got quite a few customers running vSphere 5.1 and some of the problems fixed in update 2 has been seen in my customers environments so this is great news. One thing i know will be really appreciated, at least among my …
Move vCloud Director based VM between vSphere clusters
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 …
vCenter Server database and MSCS issue in vSphere 5.1
A couple of months ago a customer of mine changed their vCenter Server database location from a standalone MSSQL 2008 SP2 installation to a Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) based MSSQL 2008 R2 SP2 installation. The intention is very good and it all comes down to increase the availability of the MSSQL server since you can …
vSphere and vCloud Director database creation script
A customer called me yesterday asking for a script to create the necessary databases to run: vCenter Server vCenter Single Sign On vCenter Update Manager vCloud Director The customer was about to perform a clean install in their test environment and will be using vCenter Server 5.1 U1, ESXi 5.1 U1 and vCloud Director (vCD) …
VSM response error – Not licensed for entity
A few weeks ago one customer changed his evaluation licenses for vCenter Server, ESXi, vCloud Director (vCD) and vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) to their newly purchased licenses. The customer runs the most recent versions, at present time 2013-04-12, of vSphere (ESXi 5.1 and VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0b 947939) and VMware vCloud Director (5.1.1 868405). Everything looked ok in …
vCloud Director internal server error when deploying vApps
During VMware vCloud Director (vCD) vApp deployments using the latest versions of both vSphere (ESXi 5.1 and VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0b 947939) and VMware vCloud Director (5.1.1 868405) i got the below vDC error message: The vCD cell logs located in the /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs directory told me e.g. “vCenter Server is unresponsive” These errors made me start investigating …
vCenter Orchestrator Player mode
When i logged on to a vCenter Orchestrator server a few days ago i was a bit surprised because i was not able to edit any workflow. I could still run the workflows but the “Edit” option was greyed out. Walking through the vCenter Orchestrator Client UI i found that the vCenter Orchestrator server were …