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Vendor Customized ESX images

By vervoortjurgen|2016-10-26T12:43:04+01:00September 6th, 2014|Vmware|

When you install ESXi 5.x from vmware you don't have all the plug-ins or modules that a vendor customized ESX images has. Why you ask? well you might want to monitor your ESX host with HP insight manager, IBM System Director or other management software. Or want to update your drivers and firmware with update software of the vendor, with this customized images of the vendor yo don't need to install de additional plug-ins. here are some links to the vendors i use the most ( at the time of writing ESXi 5.5 update 1 was out) IBM VMware vSphere hypervisor (ESXi) [...]

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Backup free vmware ESXi 5.x standalone server

By vervoortjurgen|2014-08-18T21:45:43+01:00August 18th, 2014|Vmware|

hello some of my customers has stand alone servers running only 3 or 4 vm machines on it and ESXi host is installed with a free license key. Since these vm's needed to be backed up I tried 2 backup solutions: veeam 6 and backup exec 2014 first I tried backup exec 2014. it just wouldn't backup and de snapshot wasnt possible Second I tried veeam backup. most of the time this product works well for me, but I was wrong. it also failed to back up veeam was more clear in the error. it said that the license of [...]

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LSI MegaRaid Storage Manager for IBM Serveraid systemx or bladecenter on vmware ESXi 5.x

By vervoortjurgen|2016-10-26T12:43:04+01:00August 16th, 2014|Vmware|

Long tittle i know. sorry about that i wanted to share this with everybody cause it took me hours to get this working on IBM servers ive been reading a lot of blogs about this so i wanted to put my findings here you can use a management windows station or a vm on the esx host itself (windows 2003 or higher) first i did some preparations: enabled ssh on your ESXi host start CIM server on your ESXi host your ESXi host must be 5.x !! tools that i used are: WinSCP - here Putty - here Download the [...]

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Update standalone ESX host

By vervoortjurgen|2016-10-26T12:43:05+01:00August 3rd, 2014|Vmware|

Update standalone ESX host If you have a client that just has 1 ESX host then you have to manually update your esx host since you don’t have any update manager or vcenter available Here are steps to update your esx host In this example im upgrading from esx 5.1 tot 5.5 u1 Shutdown all VM’s Put the esx host in maintenance mode Enable ssh access on your esx host Open http firewall port for outgoing traffic in Configuration – Security Profile – Firewall (section) Or use esxcli command: esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient use follwing esxi shell command to [...]

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Nested esx 5.5 host inside vSphere

By vervoortjurgen|2016-10-26T12:43:05+01:00July 19th, 2014|Vmware|

since im trying to set up a home lab i needed to have more esx host. so i started to look into nested ESX host I found a lot of blogs out there for vSphere 5.0 and 5.1. but few for vSphere 5.5 finally this blog helped me on the right path https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970 for nested esx 5.0 look at these blogs from William Lam or Duncan Epping. http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/07/how-to-enable-support-for-nested-64bit.html http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/06/12/creating-a-nested-lab/ first i checked if my hardware supports nested hardware virtualization https://fqdn of your esxhost or ip address/mob/?moid=ha-host&doPath=capability look for nestedHVsupport if its true. make sure you enable VT-x and EPT or AMD-V [...]

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Vmware Certification Policies and Agreements

By vervoortjurgen|2014-07-16T15:40:24+01:00July 16th, 2014|Vmware|

Vmware has changed his certification policy make sure you update you certificates in time. read more in the link below on the vmware site Certification Policies and Agreements

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Prepare for VCAP-DCA5

By vervoortjurgen|2016-10-26T12:43:05+01:00July 14th, 2014|Vmware|

hi everyone, I'm preparing for my VCAP-DC5.5 at the moment and I collected all the pdf files from the blueprint exam from the VMware site. If you are interested you can download them in the link below. good luck to everybody who is trying to get their VCAP-DCA VCAP-DCA5 pdf collection

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Migrate standard vSwitch to Distributed vSwitch with iSCSI multipath

By vervoortjurgen|2016-10-26T12:43:05+01:00July 12th, 2014|Vmware|

Hello everyone. I ran into some problems migrating from a standard vSwitch to a Distributed vSwitch, an I tought let me share it and maybe it can help someone. The reason was because I had multipathing configured for iSCSI connections on the standard vSwitch. (it’s up to you to decide if you want iSCSI on standard vSwitch or distributed vSwitch. There are a lot of blogs/discussions on the internet about this subject.)So here is what I did to make it work First. Make sure you remove your multipathing under the host iSCSI adapter – network port Binding Rescan your datastore. [...]

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VMWORLD 2014 EUROPE

By vervoortjurgen|2016-10-26T12:43:05+01:00July 9th, 2014|Vmware|

Dont miss the VMWorld 2014 in Barcelona this year. its going to be very informative Register now

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vShield Manager 5.x Change/Configure ip addres

By vervoortjurgen|2016-10-26T12:43:05+01:00July 6th, 2014|Vmware|

When you deploy the vshield manager and want to change/ configure the ip address then you will need to run the setup command from the command line.open the console from vShield manager and login to the CLI interface (during ovf deployment you may used other passwords for admin CLI and enable admin)manager login: admin Password: defaultGo into enable modemanager> enable Password: default manager# setupFollow the setup questions and save the configuration at the end. the ip address is changed immediately. you don't need to restart. just login to the new ip address with you prefered web browserremark:vCloud 5.5 - vShield Manager 5.5 [...]

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