Tag Archives: 5.5

Nested ESXi 5.5 – Configure Virtual Flash?

Posted on October 25, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

VirtuallyGhetto has a great post on configuring VSAN on a nested ESXi box by getting a VMDK to report itself as an SSD disk.  However this doesn’t seem to work for Virtual Flash. Here is my nested host showing an … Continue reading →

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vCenter Replication 5.5 appliance install

Posted on October 24, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

Time to play with a tool that was updated for 5.5 – vSphere Replication.  It comes (as is quickly becoming the norm) as a downloaded appliance that hooks into the vSphere Web Client for management and lets you schedule block-level … Continue reading →

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Change IP address on Orchestrator 5.5 appliance

Posted on October 18, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

After you have installed and configured the Orchestrator appliance you might start regretting some of your configuration options. To change the IP address settings or appliance name for Orchestrator use https://<ip>:5480 and the “root” login (the password was set when … Continue reading →

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Installing vSphere 5.5 tips and tricks pt 2

Posted on October 18, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

If you are trying to upload vcops or vCNS and the import seems to complete but then reports “canceled by user” and reverses the install – try downloading the ova again.  Why checksum isn’t part of this process I have … Continue reading →

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Install and configure Orchestrator 5.5

Posted on October 18, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

With vSphere 5.5 Orchestrator now ships as an appliance.  I had quite a few problems implementing it and wanted to document my process, mostly in case I need to do this again. When you deploy the OVA/OVF for Orchestrator 5.5 … Continue reading →

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Installing vSphere 5.5 tips and tricks pt 1

Posted on October 10, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

I’ll add additional posts as I run into new things, here are my notes so far. If you’re using Windows 2008 R2 U1 install the “feature” .NET 3.5.1 before you do anything else or you won’t be able to add … Continue reading →

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