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Central management of more vSphere Essential Plus

20 February 2014
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Formally a VMware vSphere Essential Plus (or Essential) suite can only be managed by a vCenter Server Essential (which is in fact a vCenter Foundation limited to only handle Essential or Essential Plus hosts). The reason is simple: the Essential bundles were born and developed for SMEs as finished packages and not as a way to extend their infrastructure (especially since formally every company could only buy one of these bundles). But until the vSphere 4.x releases was still possible to manage one or more Essential / Essential Plus clusters with a single vCenter Server […]

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VMware vSphere Web Client limits

13 February 2014
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Reading Time: 2 minutes In a previous post I’ve described the limits of the (legacy) vSphere Client, especially in the 5.5 version. But also the (new) vSphere Web Client has some limits, also in the 5.5 version. First to all is VMware vSphere Web Client really a multi-platform solution? It could be, but the Flash framework (and the VM console plugin) imply some possible portability issues. Starting with 5.5 version (see 5.5a or 5.5b release notes) Linux is no more supported: Because Linux platforms are no longer supported by Adobe Flash, vSphere Web Client is not supported on the […]

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VMware vSphere Client 5.5 limits

12 February 2014
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Reading Time: 3 minutes As already mentioned, there could be several reasons for not upgrading to vSphere 5.5, and some are also related to the client for Windows (the vSphere Client). OF course, it will be supplanted by the new vSphere Web Client, but still this client is required for some activities (eg update the host with VUM). In addition, the Web Client works only with vCenter Server, and then in standalone configurations or configurations with the free hypervisor (which can not be managed by vCenter Server), the “old” client becomes mandatory (unless use command line). Trivially also for […]

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Create a custom ESXi installation ISO

5 February 2014
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In previous post we have already see how add custom drivers to an ESXi installation ISO and how use ImageBuilder to make custom ESXi ISO, but in other cases you may need to define some custom settings during the installation or add custom vib files. Booting from CD is not the only way, but custom ISO could be used also for boot from USB or for boot from virtual devices (like the iDRAC or ILOE).

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VMware Workstation 10 bug with multiple virtual NIC

3 February 2014
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Seems that VMware Workstation has an issue when you build VM with multiple virtual NICs. This issue affect only version 10 of Workstation, previous version and VMware Player are not affected. Actually seems that there isn’t yet any KB article, but there is a community thread with a full discussion about this bug and the temporally workaround.

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VMware vCenter Server – Installable vs. Appliance

28 January 2014
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Reading Time: 5 minutes As 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 […]

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VMware vSphere 5.5 upgrade path – ESXi

24 January 2014
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Reading Time: 3 minutes After 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).

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