Protecting your Cloud (vCloud & SRM)

So one of the BIG problems at the moment is that SRM does not fully support protecting your vCloud environment. http://www.vmware.com/support/srm/srm-releasenotes-5-1-1.html#caveats It supports protecting your management cluster (so the vCenter servers, vCD cells, vCNS manager, vCM, DBs, etc), but it doesn't yet protect your resource cluster..... so all those VMs you've deployed in your organisations … Continue reading Protecting your Cloud (vCloud & SRM)

VMware Partner Exchange on Tour 2013 – Reading

Wow.... it's exactly a month since I last posted on my blog! Not good signs..... =P TBH, I've been some-what busy with work, exams, training courses, webinars...... plus the last thing I've wanted to do after a long day at work is to log on and blog (which can be read "I've been lazy!"). It's … Continue reading VMware Partner Exchange on Tour 2013 – Reading

The result of playing with Certificates…..

So several days ago I blogged about Derek Seamans' blog regarding how to install vCenter Server with custom SSL certificates. I also mentioned that I was going through the process once again with vCenter 5.1 u1..... well suffice to say I used the new tool provided by VMware to install some custom certificates and it … Continue reading The result of playing with Certificates…..

Installing SSL Certificates in vCenter Server

So when I started this blog one of the posts I was planning to write was how to install SSL certificates in vCenter Server in order to replace the self-signed VMware ones. I kind of realised that it would be far simpler just to refer everyone to the great articles written by Derek Seaman which … Continue reading Installing SSL Certificates in vCenter Server

VMware Forum 2013

So if anyone's heading out to VMware Forum 2013 tomorrow at Wembley Stadium, London.... then come say hi to me at the EMC stand.... =) http://www.vmwareforum2013.com/london

The Joys and Pains of upgrades…..

So with the latest update releases across all the VMware products, I set about upgrading my demo kit last friday...... Upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance was straight forward enough.... mount the update iso to the VM browse to the management webpage click Update Repository selecting Use CD-ROM Updates follow the wizard and kick back and relax … Continue reading The Joys and Pains of upgrades…..

vSphere & vCenter 5.1 update

Been a bit quiet lately as I've been snowed under with work and training courses..... >_<" Anyways, some good news from VMware is that they've finally released an update to 5.1 that allows you to use Windows Server 2012 as the underlying OS for vCenter Server! Not to mention the support for SQL Server 2008 … Continue reading vSphere & vCenter 5.1 update

Using PowerCLi to run a ESXCli command to find storage info

So recently I had to use VMware Health Analyzer in order to run a health check on a clients' virtual environment alongside a colleague who was running Navisphere Analyzer against the clients' EMC storage array. We notice a slight problem where we couldn't match up the LUN IDs from the storage (ie Channel:Target:Lun - which … Continue reading Using PowerCLi to run a ESXCli command to find storage info

vSphere’s Built in performance monitoring tools

Currently reading around the subject on collecting and analysing performance stats in a VMware environment..... A useful article I stumbled across: http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/VMware-vSpheres-built-in-performance-monitoring-tools Whilst it doesn't tell you how to use the tools, it gives a good summary of what the tools are.... In addition to VMware's own perf mon doc: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-51-monitoring-performance-guide.pdf I also found a whitepaper … Continue reading vSphere’s Built in performance monitoring tools