Categories

Archive

May 2025
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  

Most viewed posts

Browsing Posts in vProducts

Upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication from 6.x to 7.0

29 January 2014
Comments off

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe upgrade path from Veeam Backup & Replication 6.x to the new version 7 is almost simple and fast: basically you have to upgrade first the Backup Enterprise Manager and then the Backup & Replication part, and finally apply the patch to bring it at the Backup & Replication 7.0 R2 release. The entire upgrade procedure is almost fast and usually can take around 30 min for a simple install with only one single system. Of course before doing the upgrade you need to verify the license file (you need a new one for version […]

Veeam ,

VMware vCenter Server – Installable vs. Appliance

28 January 2014
2 comments

Reading Time: 5 minutesAs written in a previous post, with the introduction of vSphere 5.0 in addition to the installable version of vCenter Server (which still requires a Windows operating system), there is also a Virtual Appliance version (called VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance). VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) is a VMware’s official VA that can be used as an alternative way to implement a full vCenter Server, instead to install on a Windows Server (that must be deployed first). Unlike the installable version, it does not require a Windows Server license and instance, but is rather […]

VMware , ,

VMware vSphere 5.5 upgrade path – ESXi

24 January 2014
Comments off

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter updating the vCenter Server part to version 5.5, you can focus on the host part. The update of the ESXi host can be completed, as usual, in several ways: Manual update with the installation CD of ESXi (by selecting upgrade and keep VMFS datastore) Manual update using the CLI Automatic updating via vSphere Update Manager (VUM) There are other ways, all discussed in the VMware KB 2058352 (Methods for upgrading to ESXi 5.5).

VMware , ,

VMware vSphere 5.5 upgrade path – vCenter

23 January 2014
2 comments

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe VMware vCenter upgrade has some possible issue, considering also that the SSO part is changed from the one implemented in vSphere 5.1. VMware has released the vSphere 5.5b (specifically for the vCenter Server application, both installable and vCSA editions) just before the Christmas holiday. Mostly another bunch of fixes around vCenter Single Sign-On functionality and upgrade errors, so be sure to use this one for the upgrade to reduce the possible issues. Note that most of the issues are related to the vCenter components:

VMware ,

VMware vSphere 5.5 upgrade path

22 January 2014
Comments off

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe procedure for upgrade to VMware vSphere 5.1 is quite similar to the upgrade path to vSphere 5.1 (and almost similar also to the upgrade path to vSphere 5.0) and is well described in the specific guide (vSphere Upgrade Guide). And first to all, you have to analyze the pro and the cons of a product upgrade, for more information see also: VMware vSphere 5.5 – Upgrade or not upgrade? You have also to consider (particularly for small enviroment) if apply an upgrade or rebuild. Anyway, some points are quite common for each major vSphere […]

VMware , , ,

Purging old data from a vCenter Server DB

17 January 2014
No comments

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the previous post we have talk about the VMware Horizon View Event database and how purge the old data in order to free some space. You can have similar issue also with the VMware vCenter Server database, considering that it can continuous grow due to the statistics and also due to the events/tasks. In really small system a simple solution could be re-install a fresh version of vCenter Server (maybe during an upgrade) and re-create all the configuration stored only in the vCenter Server database. But in several cases this approach is not realistic. […]

VMware

Purging old data from a View Event DB

16 January 2014
2 comments

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an installation of VMware Horizon View one requirement is the VMware Composer database to keep track of the various pools with linked clones. But this is the only mandatory DB (if you have linked clones), because for the various View Connection Servers there isn’t any strictly database strictly requirement, since they exchange and share data via a specific data structure based on Active Directory Lightweight Mode (actually an LDAP tree replicated between each replication server). But in real scenario, it becomes useful, from the management point of view, set up a shared database for […]

VMware none
© 2025-2011 vInfrastructure Blog | Disclaimer & Copyright