This post will help your creating a CentOS 7 Template for VMware. Getting started Install CentOS 7 on any VMware virtualization product with “Minimal Install” for the software selection. You can find the most recent install image here. Please use a VM hardware version of 10, if you want to […]
Lucky me, I just recently received an account for vCloud Hybrid Service. 🙂 After playing around with the web frontend I really wanted to go and test “hybrid” and went to connect my vCenter to vCHS. With the latest vCenter version 5.5 Update 2, you get by default a new icon […]
This post is describing the challenges with native VMware multipathing and VPLEX metro. This post is mostly generic and true for other metro storage products and native host multipathing software. Host Access Methods: VPLEX offers two Host Access Methods enabled by the AccessAnywhere Feature (active-active LUN ownership model between directors […]
I’m writing this post as there maybe more people like me that don’t read the manual and requirements prior facing errors… The problems described in this post won’t probably happen with real servers, as they have enough memory. But with lab environments, which always doesn’t have enough memory, you try […]
If you are trying to create an AD User, and set its password, as an Advanced Service (vCenter Orchestrator Workflow) in vCAC you might get following error: Unable to create a new user: InternalError: Failed to create user account… [LDAP: error code 53 – 0000001F: SvcErr: DSID-031A12D2, problem 5003 (WILL_NOT_PERFORM), […]
After successfully deploying and configuring vCAC (6.0.1) appliance and Identity Server in my lab, I started installing the IAAS server. Reading the prerequisite that currently only Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 are supported, no Windows Server 2012 R2, I started installing a copy of Windows Server 2012. […]
This video demonstrates an upgrade of a VPLEX Metro Installation from GeoSynchrony 5.2 to 5.2 SP1. The VPLEX installation consists of one engine (two directors) and three backend storages (VMAX, VNX, CLARiiON) in each site.
VPLEX is used by a VMware vSphere 5.5 Metro Storage Cluster demo installation. The ESXi hosts (one in each site) are using Powerpath/VE to keep the IO local and still do load balancing.
