Tweet Ok so it’s a bit of a long title. When you import a virtual machine into vCloud Director from the underlying vCenter Server you can remap the network as mentioned in my previous blog post Import VMs from vCenter to vCloud Director using PowerCLI. This works great up to the point when you have more [...]
Tweet vCloud Director allows you to import virtual machines from the underlying vCenter Server which is perfect should you build a virtual machine in vCenter first, or perhaps have issues uploading VMs to vCloud Director such as when using the import OVF to catalog option. This import is very simple to perform by selecting the [...]
Tweet I thought I would just post a quick article to say I have written a guide on how to deal with hidden VMware snapshots. It’s quite technical and hopefully should allow you to be able to resolve any hidden snapshot issues you may come across. When I talk about hidden snapshots I am talking [...]
Tweet This is part 3 of my guide, you can read part 1 here and part 2 here Availability High Availability (HA) New features with HA include heartbeat Datastores and support for IPv6. A heartbeat datastore is great because it helps to prevent situations where the management network drops out but the virtual machines continue running on the [...]
Tweet This is part 2 of my guide, you can read part 1 here Storage Quite a few improvements have been made to storage with vSphere 5. Storage Profiles Profile driven storage allows SLAs to be set to certain storage types, For example this together with Storage DRS (explained below) can be used to automatically [...]
Tweet vSphere 5 has been available for a couple of months now so now is an ideal time to look at upgrading your infrastructure and also to start the upgrade path for the VCP 4s out there to the VCP5. This is by no means a complete study guide, rather an introduction into the various [...]
Tweet Working with ESX(i) log files is important when troubleshooting issues within the virtual environment. You can view and search log files in ESX(i) and in vCenter Server using a few different methods. Methods Using the vSphere client The direct console user interface (DCUI) A web browser A syslog or vMA appliance An SSH connection [...]
Tweet Following on from a recent VMware View 4.5 to 4.6 upgrade I thought I would include a list of the resources I used to troubleshoot connectivity issues. First off read the View 4.6 Upgrades guide, this lists out the steps required to upgrade all components of the View infrastructure including how to upgrade the [...]
Tweet vMotion has quite a few requirements that need to be in place before it will work correctly. Here is a list of the key requirements for vMotion to work. Each host must be correctly licensed Each host must meet shared storage requirements Each host must meet the networking requirements Each compatible CPU must be [...]
Tweet Windows virtual machines require more memory with each passing release and software demands on memory are becoming larger all the time. In a vitual environment it is quite simple to increase the amount of virtual memory granted to a virtual machine, especially with features such as hot add. The ability to dynamically increase the [...]
