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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

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VMware Certification program updates

New post with all the prereqs listed VMware recently updated the VCP certification family, adding a new exam for the End User Computing/EUC/View/Horizon View product family. What used to be just “VCPx” with x designating the major release number of … Continue reading

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VMware browser support

While building a demo environment and trying to optimize the performance I received guidance that IE was not the best performer for management, especially for the WebClient. I switched to Chrome only to find that not all the products I … Continue reading

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Free Official VMware training

http://vmwarelearning.com launched some time back, but the seminars offered keep improving and there are now over 100 videos offered (that number includes localizations however). Products covered include: vSphere 5.1 (8 videos) (why vSphere has a 5.0 and a 5.1 category … Continue reading

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vCloud Suite quirks in a demo build

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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vCenter Chargeback demo database creation and gotchas

If you read the Chargeback 2.5 documentation you’ll notice you have to create a database first – but doesn’t give you a script (see below). Once created you’re asked to create a new role and assign the chargeback database owner … Continue reading

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vCloud Director and guest customization

Guest customization (specifically Windows 2003) is done a little differently in vCloud Director. While you still create a properly-named directory tree containing the sysprep files, you then run a script that combines all of the Windows sysprep files into one … Continue reading

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