Author: anthonypoh

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Upgrading vCenter Operations Manager to 5.7

So..... the penultimate piece of upgrade work planned for the DR environment is the upgrade of vCenter Operations Manager from 5.6 to 5.7. The great thing about vCOPs is the ease of upgrading the appliance. Simply navigate to the administration page (https://vcops-ip/admin) and browse to the upgrade zip bundle! =) 1. Navigate to the admin … Continue reading Upgrading vCenter Operations Manager to 5.7

Updating VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to 5.5

So after updating my vCenter Server Appliance to 5.5, the next obvious choice was to update Site Recovery Manager and the vSphere Replication Appliance. Note: the way I'm upgrading my demo environment is not according to best practice.... it's merely a quick way to document and try out the upgrade process! If you're planning an upgrade … Continue reading Updating VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to 5.5

VMworld 2013 Barcelona

Yay.... finally sorted out my schedule for VMworld 2013 Barcelona..... pretty much packed out every day and every session! It'll be interesting whether I can find the energy to attend all the sessions!!Most of my sessions will be based around NSX, vCloud Suite and BC/DR..... not planning to attend any Hands on Labs since I … Continue reading VMworld 2013 Barcelona

Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to 5.5

Given that I've not touched vSphere 5.5 yet, I thought I would try and upgrade some of the VMware components within my company's solution centre.... and the easiest component to upgrade first would be the VCA that I deployed to run as my test DR environment. Anyways, so my old VCA was running 5.1a and … Continue reading Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to 5.5

VMware vSphere 5.5 launched

Typical Sod's law..... I've been eagerly waiting to get my hands on vSphere 5.5 ever since VMworld 2013 US - unfortunately I'm not one of the lucky ones who had Beta access or pre-launch access (like some of the more renown VMware bloggers) - and the week that I decide to head off on holiday to … Continue reading VMware vSphere 5.5 launched

Cisco acquires Whiptail

Opened up my work email this morning to be inundated with mails about Cisco acquiring the flash-array startup - Whiptail - for $415m... What makes this interesting was several years ago when I attended the launch of UCS blades, someone in the audience questioned whether Cisco would enter the storage arena.... the answer at that … Continue reading Cisco acquires Whiptail

VMware Walk-throughs

So, some clever person at VMware has built some awesome walk-throughs of a few of the new features/products that were announced at VMworld 2013. http://vmwarewalkthroughs.com/vCloudSuite5-5/ http://vmwarewalkthroughs.com/VSAN/ There's a solid walk-through of VDP, showing step-by-step overviews of: creating a backup job for a VM using web-client restoring a VM using web-client restoring a VM directly to … Continue reading VMware Walk-throughs

vCloud Director Convergence and Transition Plan

vCloud Director Convergence and Transition PlanVery good blog post regarding how vCD will be integrated with vSphere and vCAC.....So it seems vCD is being phased out of Enterprise customers with vSphere handling the cloud infrastructure and vCAC the automation and cloud management.It sounds like vCD will become a VSPP product specifically aimed at service providers.....

EMC Mega Launch Event Report

Hmm..... so the Mega Launch really didn't turn out to be that 'MEGA'..... dribs and drabs of info released that most people in the room already knew from what they had seen and heard at EMC World (and from NDAs sessions with EMC)..... Not to mention the poor show from the Italian marketing team with … Continue reading EMC Mega Launch Event Report