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VXLAN Concept Simplified
While VXLAN seems to be the next revolutionary and world changing network technology out there, all the marketing hypes around it makes too confusing for the rest of us. When VXLANs first came out, I...
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VCDX 100 Celebration Treats Just Arrived almost on time for Christmas!
While VCDXSanta has missed Christmas day this time, he still delivered my VCDX gift box today. To be more accurate VCDXSanta has left my VCDX gift box at FedEX office and requested me to pick it up....
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vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 1) – Preparing the Databases
After the introduction of vSphere 5.1, there seemed to be a lot of fuzz about the installation of the new vCenter components. I believe most of the hype was caused about how the initial vSphere 5.1...
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vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 2) – Single Sign On Installation
During the installation of vCenter 5.1, you will need to install 3 components in the following order: Single Sign On => Inventory Service => vCenter Service. In a new installation I would...
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vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 3) – vCenter 5.1 Inventory Service Installation
In my previous two posts, I have demonstrated how to prepare the databases required for the different vCenter 5.1 components(SSO, vCenter Service, & Update Manager) as well how to install vCenter...
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vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 4) – vCenter Service Step by Step
As covered in my previous three posts, vCenter Service is the third component to be installed. As a reminder the order of installing vCenter 5.1 components is as follow: Single Sign On ==> vCenter...
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vCenter 5.1 Installation(Part 5) – vSphere Web Client Step by Step
Alright now that you got your vCenter 5.1 up and running & ready to start managing it. I know vSphere Client will be the first thing to come to your mind in here, but its worth mentioning that all...
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Data Center Virtualization
Companies once prided themselves on having a huge data center full of servers, storage devices and network hubs, all working together to run the business. You need a huge amount of infrastructure just...
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Microsoft Exchange 2010 is definetly supported on VMware vSphere
I know most of my readers are already aware that Microsoft Exchange & Microsoft SQL have been supported on VMware vSphere for quite long time. In fact, there is so many companies are using it at...
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vSphere 5.1 VMware Tools NTP Settings
In earlier versions of VMware vSphere, many of us used to configure VMware tools settings by double clicking VMware tools inside the guest OS. This was most often used to configure NTP in the Virtual...
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vCloud Networking & Security 5.1.1 create dvPort Groups, but fails to create...
While installing vCloud Director 5.1 in my home lab, I have faced an odd problem while configuring vCloud Networking and Security 5.1.1 for VXLANs. If you follow VMware Configuration guides for VXLAN...
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The Order of vCloud Director 5.1 Upgrade Process
It seems there has been quite few articles that try to explain the vCloud Director 5.1 Upgrade Process out there in the blog sphere, but most of them focus on the steps on how to upgrade vCloud...
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vCloud Director backup by Veeam
Backing up vCloud Director environment has been one of those hot topics lately, as not many backup vendors have mastered it yet. All the big players in town are promising a fully integrated solution by...
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Call “HostDatastoreSystem.CreateVmfsDatastore” for object...
While working with my home vSphere 5.1 lab the other day, I was trying to create a VMFS5 datastores on my local SATA disk. Each time I tried to do that I was just welcomed with the following error:...
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vCenter Single Sign On 5.1 best practices
Since vCenter Single Sign On was introduced in vSphere 5.1, many questions have been rising around it. There seems to be a very limited amount of resources out there that document best practices...
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Two opportunities for Free VMworld Passes
Yop, it is that time of the year again where all of us are looking for a way to get free VMworld Passes. Below is not one opportunity, but two of them & I will update it as soon I hear of more. 1-...
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How to replace vCenter 5.1, SSO, Web Client, vCO Certificates
With the release of vSphere 5.1 certificates started to play a much more vital role, where having invalid certificates in your environment is not an option anymore as it could break the operation of...
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VMware ADP (Application Dependency Planner)
I have recently been delivering a Virtualization Assessment engagement for an Enterprise customer, where they have benefited of the recently introduced VMware Application Dependency Planner(ADP). I...
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Please Vote for my #VMworld 2013 Sessions
I have came up with four sessions that I would like to present at VMworld 2013, but I need your help to make it reality. As you know VMworld sessions are chosen based on the community voting, so I need...
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PHD Virtual ReliableDR is SLA focused
I have just been shown a demo by PHD Virtual of their latest version of ReliableDR, & the first thing I have noticed as the title stated that it is fully business SLAs focused. With the shift today...
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