Tag: vCenter

vCenter database problem during upgrade to 6.0 Update 1

Upgrade vCenter vCSA VMware

I was upgrading a vCenter from 5.5 Update 2e to 6.0 Update 1. The first thing i did was to convert there vCenter 5.5 from Windows version to vCSA 5.5, and that went good after some certificate replacement. Then I tried to upgrade the vCSA 5.5 to vCSA 5.0 Update but, during the checks that done on the old vCSA…

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By Allan Kjaer September 18, 2015 0

VMware vSphere 5.5 update 3 released

ESXi vCenter VMware vSphere

VMware released vSphere 5.5 Update 3, that has some enhancement, and bug fixes. vCenter 5.5 Update 3: What's New vCenter Server database support: vCenter Server now supports the following external databases: Oracle 12c R1 P2 (12.1.0.2) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 Increased guest operating system support:…

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By Allan Kjaer September 17, 2015 0

vCenter Permissions problem

This week I had a colleague call me, because he had a problem at a customer with some permissions. The customer had created a Helpdesk/support role, for one of there system providers, this role only allowed them to access virtual machines, doing things like power on, power off, reset, mount CD-Rom, and thing like this. They…

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By Allan Kjaer July 4, 2015 0

RVTools 3.7 Released

ESXi RVTools vCenter VMware vSphere

One of my favorite tools, for collecting information about customers VMware vSphere environment, has been updated. This new version contains this fixes and new information: VI SDK reference changed from 5.0 to 5.5 Extended the timeout value from 10 to 20 minutes for really big environments New field VM Folder on vCPU, vMemory, vDisk, vPartition, vNetwork,…

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By Allan Kjaer March 15, 2015 0

New cool fling from VMware “vCS to vCSA Converter

Flings vCenter vCSA VMware

VMware has just published a new VMware Fling on VMware Labs, that can convert Windows installed vCenter using a external Microsoft SQL to vCSA (vCenter Server Appliance). This is something I have been requesting for at long time, and is looking forward to trying out. The tools can be found here: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vcs-to-vcva-converter

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By Allan Kjaer March 6, 2015 0