Virtualization
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VMware announces vSphere 6, vSAN 6
Below are notes I took during yesterday’s announcement from VMware in their live event: Vmware’s Announcement for Software defined Datacenter – OneCloud Four components: • vSphere • Network • Virtualized storage • Hybrid cloud It enables you to transform your…
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How to upgrade VMware Operations Manager VM Tools
In rolling out the latest vCenter and ESXi host updates that have come about in the last couple of days, the other part of that step is making sure that all vm tools are updated on guest VMs in the…
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Updating VMware vCenter Appliance 5.5 to 5.5 Update 2d
For smaller environments the vCenter Server appliance is a great and easy way to get up and running with vCenter. The update process to keep the appliance up to date is rather painless as well. With the recent release of…
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Installing and configuring VMware Operations Manager 5.5
vCenter Operations Manager allows admins to monitor and manage the health, performance, and capacity planning of their current vSphere infrastructure environment. It provides a really nice graphical interface to help visualize possible heat maps of issues in your vSphere infrastructure…
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Installing vSphere Update Manager 5.5 update 2 and configuration
Maintaining and deploying patches and updates throughout any environment can take a lot of heavy lifting by administrators. VMware environments need to be patched and updated along with other OS environments in any enterprise environment. While updates can be manually…
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Updating vCenter Server 5.5 to update 2
With the recent release of the Update 2 revision of vSphere 5.5, many admins may be looking to update their environments to this release level to have all the latest and greatest functionality in their VMware environment. Below we will…
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Apply Latest Patches to standalone Dell Customized ESXi 5.5 host
In spinning up a new environment recently for a client, we wanted to get the hosts to the latest patch level. We didn’t have local VUM in place or even vCenter for that matter. All three hosts were running the…
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How to change the raid controller battery in an MD3000i
In working with a client recently in changing out the RAID controller battery on an MD3000i connected to a small VMware environment, I wanted to post the steps taken to get the batteries changed on both RAID controllers in the…
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How to Transfer an ISO file to ESXi using Veeam
One of the tasks in administering or using VMware ESXi server is transferring an ISO file to the server for use in loading operating systems. This is not a difficult task when you have the right software to work with.…
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Migrating ESX 3.5 servers to ESXi 4.1 update 1
Many VMware admins who administer legacy versions of the VMware ESX family hypervisor are probably starting to look at how they can get to the ESXi family of hypervisor since VMware has made it clear (especially with the release of version 5)…
