After long break decided to continue vSphere networking series, today 2 x 10Gbps NIC’s with standard and virtual distributed switches. Playing around with vSphere networking, 10Gbps network connectivity which becomes main stream in modern...
Quick guide how to prepare databases for vSphere 5.1 deployment. Part one focus on Microsoft SQL database which is most common database platform for vSphere deployments. Before vSphere 5.1 installation or upgrade three databases...
To complete upgrade to vSphere 5.1 you need to complete few more steps, depends on design some of the can be skipped. Recommended: Upgrading VMware Tools Upgrade the Virtual Hardware for Virtual Machines Back...
One of they ways of upgrading to vSphere 5.1 is a Simple installation. Simple installation does install below services in exact order: vSphere SingleSignOn vCenter inventory services vCenter server Before upgrade make sure below...
Earlier this year, Unitrends announced a new software-only product called Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) that protects virtual and physical environments both locally and in the cloud. UEB is available as a virtual appliance integrated with both VMware vSphere...
There is no difference between deploying VMware vCenter Server Appliance and on vSphere platform. Below quick How To. Download VMware vCenter Server Appliance ovf file, system and data VMDK from VMware site to a...
Before you start [box type=”warning”] ESXi 5.1 requires vCenter server instance in version 5.1 and vSphere VMware Update Manager in version 5.1. You must install or update these components in this order: vCenter server ,...
vMotion VM between vSphere clusters Few days ago I had discussion with one of my colleagues about possibility to migrate VM’s between vSphere clusters. I was trying to persuade him that is possible and I did...
[box type=”warning”] You must install vCenter Single Sign On before upgrading Inventory Service[/box] Step #2- Installing vCenter inventory services. Mount ISO with VMware vSphere 5.1 installation repositories and on welcome screen click on VMware vCenter inventory services....
I decided to present my personal rank of features in vSphere 5.1 Virtual Distributed Switches, backup and restore – fantastic feature, at least on a paper 🙂 , for me number one, finally no...
