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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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged 5.5, Orchestrator, vcloud, vSphere 7 Comments
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged chargeback, chrome, firefox, vcloud, vcops, vSphere Leave a comment
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged free training, vcloud, vmware, vSphere 1 Comment
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
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged "vmware cloud director", #cloud, microsoft, sysprep, vcd, vcloud, vmware Leave a comment
