Tag Archives: 5.1

vCloud Suite quirks in a demo build

Posted on November 16, 2012 by josh@sostechblog.com

I was building a nested demo environment for vCloud Director 5.1 / vSphere 5.1 and noticed a few quirks that affected how I spec’d my hosts. I deployed vCD on RedHat, a vCenter VM, and an ESXi 5.1 host. I … Continue reading →

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vCloud Director 5.1 cell – change the database

Posted on November 15, 2012 by josh@sostechblog.com

Adding a cell to an existing deployment requires accessing the same database (and using the responses.properties file from the initial install) but if you decide to make the second cell stand-alone or made a mistake during deployment or just want … Continue reading →

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vSphere 5.1 – using previous templates

Posted on September 17, 2012 by josh@sostechblog.com

I just started playing with 5.1, having upgraded my Workstation 9 environment over the weekend. One of the first things I noticed was I could no longer convert a pre-5.1 template back to a virtual machine.

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