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Tag Archives: 5.5
Nested ESXi 5.5 – Configure Virtual Flash?
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged 5.5, virtual flash, VSAN, vSphere 5 Comments
vCenter Replication 5.5 appliance install
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged 5.5, ESXi, replication, srm, vSphere 5 Comments
Change IP address on Orchestrator 5.5 appliance
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
Installing vSphere 5.5 tips and tricks pt 2
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
Install and configure Orchestrator 5.5
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged 5.5, Orchestrator, vcloud, vSphere 7 Comments
Installing vSphere 5.5 tips and tricks pt 1
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