If you rolled out vCO before the vApp was released, the upgrade path is a bit different than “click here to upgrade”. Here’s the steps: Snapshot/Clone or otherwise backup vCO and your database. Launch the VCO installer (install media \ vCenter-Server\vCO): Click upgrade: Next: Change the SSL Keys (up to you): Next Next Click install,
-> Continue reading Upgrading vCenter Orchestrator
There are a few situations you might want to do this, security and least privileged accounts comes to mind, as does auditability. However, you will also need to do this when your SQL server is using Windows Authentication. Otherwise you’ll run into: “There was an error connecting to VMware Update Manager… Database temporarily unavailable or
-> Continue reading [VUM] Configure Update Manager to use a Service Account
So, outside of a few home drama items recently, there has been a new addition from the Open Compute Platform project, and that is a v 1.0 Intel platform. About Open Compute In April 2011, Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (Announcement) with a stated goal of making servers and datacenters more efficient. The 1.0
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This week the APAC BrownBags covered VCAP-DCD and vSphere Host Design. Video Slides
Video Slides
In looking around vCO, at least in the default plug-in, there was not a good variety of workflows for configuring hosts. This workflow, will set the NTP server on a host. Schema Not a very creative schema, and for good reason. Also note, it is designed to work on a single host at a time.
-> Continue reading [Orchestrator] Configure Host Time Settings
Well, Chrome handles a bit better, however, it still gets boggy after a week or two of having too many tabs open. Without further adieu: Pimp the vCO vApp: http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/pimp-my-vcenter-orchestrator-virtual-appliance.html Host Profiles Deep Dive – http://www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-4008 IO Analyzer w/ @bacon_is_king – http://gabrielchapman.com/?p=238 I need to reinstall View5 at home. Will be using this – http://www.vtexan.com/category/view5install/
-> Continue reading Open Tabs – Week Ending 3/23/12
Disclaimer: I met Pano at VMworld 2009 and asked to do a write up of their stuff. From there followed some back and forth with their support group, x64 and Win 7 support and the like. Things went silent for a bit. Got a contact from them recently when I tweeted regarding Pano and PCoIP
-> Continue reading Pano Logic – Demo Unit Unboxing
This week the APAC BrownBags had on Jon Hall to talk about the VCAP 5 Exam registration, environment, and the like. List of good tidbits can be gleaned here. Video Slides
Video: Slides: Find us on iTunes (and other places) iTunes: bit.ly/BrownbagiTunesPodcast: bit.ly/BrownbagPodcastAPAC VCAP Brownbag: bit.ly/APACBrownbag
I’ll be at the Austin vMUG tomorrow with some free copies of vCO book (hard copy / kindle). If you are in town, stop by and say hello. There are a number of other vMUGs in the works (San Antonio, North Carolina, and any others that’ll have me).
The technology fairy dropped a note in my inbox about a Public technology preview for VMware’s Desktop Virtualization Products (VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion). While this is a bit unusual for VMware, new and shiny is always fun. The details are below: VMware Workstation CTP The VMware Workstation Team is excited to invite you to
-> Continue reading VMware Workstation & Fusion Tech Previews Now Available
This BrownBag went deep ++ on the fundamentals of storage and how storage is handled in a vSphere environment. Again, sorry for the delay on this one, we had some… technical difficulties. iTunes:http://t.co/07DLlqC3Podcast Feed: http://t.co/2FigEC96 Video Slides
Sorry for the delay folks. Don’t forget, we’re on iTunes: http://t.co/07DLlqC3 and the podcast feed: http://t.co/2FigEC96 Video Slides
I’ve again hit the point where Chrome was eating up too much memory. Thusly, here’s what is currently in my open tabs: PCoIP, Win 8, iPad – http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=2984 Resource Pool Shares & vCD – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/28/resource-pool-shares-dont-make-sense-with-vcloud-director/ vBenchmark – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/29/cool-tool-vbenchmark-fling/ Building Block Scaling – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/03/02/scale-out-building-block-style-or-should-i-say-yellow-brick-style/ Use vCO to manage View – http://cloudnutz.com/2012/03/07/using-vmware-vco-to-manage-vmware-view/ vCenter 5 API for Guest
-> Continue reading Link Dump – 3/12/12
March is storage month for the US vBrownBags. While storage itself can be a huge topic, we’ve lined up some experts to talk about storage in the context of virtualization. vBrownBag Storage Month Line-Up Name Topic Date Ravi Venkat Pt 1 – Host Centric Storage 3/7/12 Hersey Cartwright Datastore Clustering 3/14/12 Gabe Chapman IO Analyzer
-> Continue reading vBrownBag – Storage Month
So, a lot… and I mean a LOT of work goes into producing the content you find in the BrownBags, and well, I’ve not been able to go it alone. In fact, for at least the last 6 months, and maybe the next 6 as well, I’ve had a scheduling conflict with school and have
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That time again… time to close out a metric boat load of tabs. In no particular order: vCO.Next Sneak peak – http://www.vcoportal.de/2012/02/sneak-peek-on-upcoming-vco/ Mike Laverick’s VCP5 experience – http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2012/02/28/passing-vcp5-just/ An evolved “enable FT” PowerCLI function –http://vniklas.djungeln.se/2012/02/25/vmware-vsphere-ft-fault-tolerance-function-for-powercli/ ESX System Analyzer (Pre-ESXi Upgrades, etc) – http://labs.vmware.com/flings/esx-system-analyzer MMM Numa Numa Numa – http://virtualtoddsbigblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/numa-performance-considerations-on.html Some vSphere/ESXi 5 Lab experiences –
-> Continue reading Open Tabs – Week ending 3/2/2012
This week being a bi-week for the BrownBags to give y’all a chance to cram for the fast approaching 29th deadline, I’ve taken the time to put the VCP5 BrownBags into order around the blueprint objectives. Special Thanks again to Damian Karlson for making these happen. VCP-510 Playlist Objective 1https://vimeo.com/34952699 Objective 2https://vimeo.com/35771934 Objective 3https://vimeo.com/35297839 Objective
-> Continue reading VCP5 BrownBag Playlist
Well, honestly I’m not sure if shipping is the right word for an electronic book, but nevertheless, the electronic editions of vCO Book are now shipping. Kindle If you have it, drop a line, or link a picture & tell me what you think.