vSphere/vCenter 6.5 released

So post VMworld, I wrote a long article about what's new for vSphere 6.5 which I was hoping would be published on SearchVMware.com.... unfortunately I'm still waiting on it to be published, last I heard the article was too long and they were splitting it up into two articles! ¬_¬" Anyways, whilst I wait for … Continue reading vSphere/vCenter 6.5 released

Modifying VMware Site Recovery Manager – Windows 2012 UAC error

I first came across this issue when helping a customer uninstall Site Recovery Manager last year and wanted to blog about it but because I was pretty busy it totally slipped my mind..... until today!! I've been cleaning up the Solution Centre at MTI and tried to uninstall SRM for a new build.... and came across … Continue reading Modifying VMware Site Recovery Manager – Windows 2012 UAC error

VMworld 2015 Update

Recently I was asked to write a comment for SearchVMware's Advisory Council September topic, which was about VMworld 2015 US and what was announced: http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/feature/vSphere-integrated-containers-and-other-updates-excite-at-VMworld-2015 With VMworld 2015 Europe just around the corner, I decided that such a short comment wouldn't do the US convention much justice, as such I decided to continue and expand on all the … Continue reading VMworld 2015 Update

VMworld 2015 breakout sessions now on YouTube

Unknown to most out there, VMworldTV has been busy uploading recordings onto their YouTube channel. All the General Sessions are available to watch, and currently there are around 54 breakout session videos available - sessions such as: SDDC5273 - VMware EVO SDDC: Deploying a Software-Defined Data Center Made Easy INF5060 - What's New in vSphere … Continue reading VMworld 2015 breakout sessions now on YouTube

vSphere 6.0 update 1 and Virtual SAN 6.1 released (plus other goodies)

.... and so just a week after VMworld 2015 US, VMware have released vSphere 6.0 update 1 and a number of other product updates..... without ANY fanfare..... it was such a silent release that the first I heard about it was when all the community bloggers started posting up announcements! Anyways, here are the products released … Continue reading vSphere 6.0 update 1 and Virtual SAN 6.1 released (plus other goodies)

Upgrading to SRM 5.8 and vSphere Replication Appliance 5.8

There were new versions released earlier this month for a number of VMware products, and one of the things I like to do is keep my demo environment up to date! =) Upon upgrading SRM from 5.5 to 5.8 and vRA from 5.5 to 5.8 (I'm using vSphere replication with SRM in my demo environment), I noticed … Continue reading Upgrading to SRM 5.8 and vSphere Replication Appliance 5.8

Site Recovery Manager SSL error

Recently had to regenerate the SSL certificates on my vCenter Server Appliance as I had noticed they were originally created with localhost.localdom as the DNS name. Quite easy to regenerate the SSL certs, just log onto the admin page of the vCSA (http://ip-address:5480) and log in as root. Click on the Admin tab and by Certificate regeneration … Continue reading Site Recovery Manager SSL error

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

Retaining Resource Pools using Webclient

So a few days ago I posted up an article about what happens if you disable DRS in a vCD environment..... Well I stumbled across this article in VMware's knowledgebase: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2032893 "Great"...... I thought..... "I can use the snapshot functionality within Webclient to capture the resource pools!"......the only problem is, upon deeper digging I stumbled … Continue reading Retaining Resource Pools using Webclient

SRM & datastore names

By default, when doing a failover with SRM the VMFS Datastores will be labeled with a “snap-xxxxxxx-name” because they will have been re-signatured during the failover process.This can cause issues for applications that may utilise the datastore name (for example some backup applications).To stop the renaming of the datastores edit the Advanced Settings of each … Continue reading SRM & datastore names