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Troubleshooting vMotion error
After recovering from a power failure, I noticed VMs were not migrating to one of the vSphere 5 hosts in a HA/DRS cluster. That host had a status message that read “Unable to apply DRS resource...
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Use Alarms to monitor your vSphere environment
There have been a number of KB articles, blog posts, best practices documentation and more suggesting vSphere admins use the Alarms feature in vSphere to proactively monitor their environment. This is...
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Something New!
After 15 great years at Venture Technologies, I’m moving on to boost my career. I’ve been given an opportunity to join EMC Consulting as an Advisory Solutions Architect. Everyone I’ve met there has...
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Windows 8 – How to install the vSphere Client 5.0 Update1a
If you’re considering a machine with Windows 8, you may notice that the installer for VMware vSphere client 5.01a (latest release) complains that it can only be installed on “Windows XP SP2 or higher”...
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vCloud Suite 5.1 upgrade suggestions
This information will probably be outdated quickly, but for now (9/14/2012), here are my suggestions and tips concerning vCloud Suite 5.1 If you plan to use Microsoft SQL Server for your SSO database,...
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How to move a VMware View desktop from one Pool to Another
First, I doubt this procedure is supported. Second, if you follow these steps, you do so at your own risk. It worked for me, but your mileage may vary. Ok, so let’s say that you have a pool of full...
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Order of Operations when Upgrading vCloud Director to 5.1
This should be a short article. I’m assuming you have vCD 1.5 running on vSphere 5.0 with vShield Manager 5.0. Starting with: vCenter Orchestrator 5.0 vCenter Server 5.0 vShield Manager 5.0.x ESXi 5.0...
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vCloud Director Database Issues
We had a situation recently where vCloud Director 1.5.1 (that’s one-dot-five-dot-one, not five-dot-one) failed to delete an external network, giving this error: Could not execute JDBC batch update -...
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WTF is wrong with vCenter Chargeback?!
Every time I try to install vCenter ChargeBack, it fails. Every. %^#$#*. Time. The installation log – which isn’t visible until the installation ends – indicates that a batchfile is created and then...
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Expanding a VMDK for OpenFiler
In my lab, I have an OpenFiler 2.99.1 VM running on the physical host providing storage via iSCSI to my virtual hosts. Increasing the size of the VMDK used by the OpenFiler VM does not equate to more...
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Resolving vCAC Design Center Crash
After having installed the vCAC Design Center, every attempt to run it failed. The GUI would not load. In my case, the Windows Application log recorded the error: .NET Runtime Event ID 1026 in...
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VMware Horizon View Network Ports Illustrated
I’ve recently had to attempt to describe the ports used in the various connection scenarios used by VMware View and found that a diagram really helped clear things up and have aided in producing...
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VMware Horizon View Network Ports Illustrated pt. 2
As Carl pointed out, I left HTML Access (aka Blast) off of the first round of View network port diagrams. So after going through the documents and making various connections while running TCPView,...
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Handy VMKB for SRM & VR 5.1
VMKB 1009562 has a lot of good information, I’m not going to repeat it here, but it is a great resource for determining what network ports have to be open between what devices when using SRM &...
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Use Cisco Nexus 1000V for virtual hosts in nested ESXi
The native VMware vSwitch and Distributed vSwitch do not use MAC-learning. This was removed because the vSwitches would be aware of the VMs attached to them and the MAC addresses in use. As a result,...
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vCAC 6.0 IaaS .NET Framework – Quick note
The Windows 2008 R2 template I was deploying the IaaS component for vCAC on already has .NET Framework 4.5.1 installed. The .NET Framework 4.5 installer downloaded from the vCAC server indicated that a...
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Variables passed from vCAC to vCO
This may be documented elsewhere, but I had to find it the hard way. When you’ve created a service under Advanced Services in vCAC that calls a vCenter Orchestrator workflow, a handful of additional...
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Extending vCAC IaaS to fix an annoyance
Background: When provisioning a Windows VM using the Clone Workflow and a vSphere customization specification that joins the computer to an active directory domain, the computer object is placed in the...
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Setting the Machine Name of a vCAC-provisioned VM to comply with a Corporate...
Machine Prefix/Property Definition – Part 1 Powershell – Part 2 Workflow modification – Part 3 Blueprint Update – Part 4 Important Aside You should visit Adam Bohle’s blog and his fantastic posts...
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Setting the Machine Name of a vCAC-provisioned VM to comply with a Corporate...
Machine Prefix/Property Definition – Part 1 Powershell – Part 2 Workflow Configuration – Part 3 Blueprint Update – Part 4 Review In part 1, we configured the Machine Prefix, Property Dictionary and...
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