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Compare vSphere versions in one minute – 5.0 – 5.1 – 5.5 – 6.0 – vSphere Cheat Sheet

vSphere 6.0 -Difference between vSphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 and vSphere 6.0 vSphere has changed dramatically over the past few years… It has became harder to track changes – vSphere 6.0 released with lot of new features and enhancements as compared to the previous versions of vSphere releases. I would really like to give a comparison of  features and scalability between vSphere 5.0, vSphere 5.1,…

How to Install and setup Postfix on Ubuntu 14.04

Introduction

Postfix is an extremely prominent open source Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) that could be utilized to course and convey email on a Linux framework. It is evaluated that around 25% of open mail servers on the web run Postfix.

In this aide, we’ll show you how to get up and running rapidly with Postfix on a Ubuntu 14.04 server.

Prerequisites

To follow this aide, you ought to have a Fully…

vSphere 5.0 Update 1 and Related Product Launches

VMware has unveiled a point release update to several of their products tied to the vSphere 5 virtual cloud datacenter platform plus a few new product launches.

vCenter 5.0 Update 1– Added support for new guest operating systems such as Windows 8, Ubuntu, and SLES 11 SP2, the usual resolved issues and bug fixes, plus some updates around vRAM limits licensing. No compatibility at this time with…

VMware Extends Lab Manager 4.x Support 1 Year

Some years ago, with the release of VMware vCloud Director 1.0, VMware announced the end of support date for Lab Manager 4.x.  That date had actually come and gone last month.  This morning there was a communication from VMware that Lab Manager 4.x support has been extended for another year with the new end of support date being May 21, 2014. It would appear VMware had more existing Lab Manager…

vCloud Director , RHEL 6.3 , and Windows Server 2012 NFS

One of the new features introduced in vCloud Director 5.1.2 is cell server support on the RHEL 6 Update 3 platform , cell server support on RHEL 5 Update 7 was quietly removed in the recent past – verify the version of RHEL in your environment using cat /etc/issue).  When migrating your cell server(s) to RHEL 6.3, particularly from 5.x, you may run into a few issues.

The first issue is the lack…

Using PowerCLI to Answer Virtual Machine Message Questions

Many people, who do not like working hard, but believe in efficiency, automation and working smarter.  Just like scripters. You’ll sometimes hear them say something like “Any process which is repeated once or more should be scripted”.  Thus my personal threshold for committing to a scripted method is higher than one repetition. Mostly, if you are not that good at scripting.

In my environment, I…

Software Defined Single Sign On Database

One difficult task since the release of vSphere 5.1 has been the creation of SSO (Single Sign On) databases.  Creating an SSO database is not that incredibly difficult, but to achieve this; you require a higher level of attention to detail. There are a few reasons for this:

VMware provides multiple MS SQL scripts to set up the back end database environment (rsaIMSLiteMSSQLSetupTablespaces.sql and…

RVTools 3.3 Now Available

Good news: RVTools 3.3 from Rob de Veij is now generally available to the public.  Release notes for this build:

GetWebResponse timeout value changed from 5 minutes to 10 minutes (for very big environments)

New tabpage with HBA information

On vDatastore tab the definition of the Provisioned MB and In Use MB columns was confusing! This is changed now.

RVToolsSendMail accepts now multiple…

vSphere 5.x – How to Enable SSH & ESXi Shell

Today we are going to learn how to enable SSH and the ESXi shell on VMware vSphere 5.1 and 5.x in very simple steps. We are going to do this using the ESXi/vSpher Hypervisor console window. This post hopefully will help those that are starting out with VMware vSphere or those that already run their own lab and needed a memory reminder.

To gain access to your ESXi host’s console window is a…

VMware vCenter Server Update 5.5.0a Update Available

VMware vCenter Log Insight- Puppet Enterprise Content Pack Available

VMware vCenter Log Insight is software that performs log aggregation and analysis across various devices and components in your infrastructure, for example storage. The Puppet Enterprise Content Pack is now available for VMware vCenter Log Insight. Those not familiar with VMware vCenter log insight I recommend you take a look and download the free trial. The importance of this software is known…

vMA 5.1 Patch 1 Released

Expendable news item here too good not to be posted.  For those who may have missed it, VMware has released an update to the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 5.1 appliances formally referred to as Patch 1.  This release is documented in VMware KB 2044135 and the updated appliance bits can be downloaded from (http://vmware.com/download/).  Log in; choose the VMware vSphere link, then the Drivers…

Veeam Launches Backup & Replication v7

When it comes to data protection, data replication and data recovery, these are very challenging tasks. Consolidation through virtualization has forced customers to retool automated protection and recovery methodologies in the datacenter and at remote DR sites. Veeam has evolved from just a simple backup tool to a full solution agentless backup and restore with application item intelligence as…

vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 root account locked out after password expiration

I was browsing and I came across this new VMware KB article which could potentially have widespread impact. This is very important, particularly in lab, development and proof of concept environments. The VMware KB article number is 2069041 and it is titled The vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 root account locked out after password expiration.

The root account of the vCenter Server Appliance version…

Using vim-cmd To Power On Virtual Machines

When you have a lab it is very wise to have a UPS that will protect you in case of a power shortage, this is because a power shortage can bring everything down. When everything is 100% virtualized, DHCP , DNS and active directory. Recovering this type of environment is a little hard from a complete outage. This is because after you have brought the network, storage and ESXi hosts online. Still…

Update VMware Tools via Windows System Tray

Those that use windows platform may inquire why they are unable to update an out of date VMware tools installation using the VMware tools applet in the system tray. When you click on the Update Tools button either produces an error similar to Update Tools failed or nothing happens.

Even though the option to update VMware Tools is generally available via the system tray, the functionality is…

Storage Center 5.6 Released

There is a release of the storage center 5.6 and it comes with some features and platform support currently built into storage center 6.x as well as a large number of bug fixes. This is good news for those with 32-bit systems (series 30 or below) who require these features because SCOS 6.x is 64-bit only for series 40 and newer which today includes the SC8000.

Some of the features include:

It’s…