How to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize operations manager 6.2 part 4

By |2016-10-26T12:43:01+01:00March 31st, 2016|VMware, vRealize|

Read the previous other post  if needed How to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize operations manager 6.2 part 1 How to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize operations manager 6.2 part 2 How to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize operations manager 6.2 part 3 Make sure you downloaded the PAK files from VMware site first to proceed. vApp clusters The vApp cluster requires the deployment of the OS upgrade and the product upgrade .pak files. For an OS upgrade, the file is: vRealize_Operations_Manager-VA-OS-xxx.pak For the product upgrade of vApp clusters, the file is: vRealize_Operations_Manager-VA-xxx.pak More information can be found [...]

How to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize operations manager 6.2 part 3

By |2016-10-26T12:43:01+01:00March 30th, 2016|VMware, vRealize|

Read my other 2 post how to deploy and setup vROM How to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize operations manager 6.2 part 1 How to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize operations manager 6.2 part 2 Now we can start the migration. On the First Page you can now select if it’s a new environment or a migration. The migration will be next to each other so the old and the new appliance will keep collecting data until you decide your migration is successful.  If not just start over. So Select Import Environment and click Next. Accept [...]

How to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize operations manager 6.2 part 2

By |2016-10-26T12:43:01+01:00March 29th, 2016|VMware, vRealize|

Make sure you follow my previous post of how to deploy the vRealize Operations Manager Appliance 6.x So once you deployed the appliance and powered it on(wait enough time to let it start), you can now navigate to the appliance using your favorite browser. I used google chrome. Open your browser windows and type in the URL/ip of the appliance https://<> If this is your first appliance you can choose either Express installation or new Installation. For the migration you will need to choose new Installation. If you have very large productions sites or multiple datacenters sites, you can expand [...]

vSphere HTML5 Web Client

By |2016-10-26T12:43:01+01:00March 28th, 2016|Vmware, VMware|

VMware is working on replacing the VMware webclient on flash. Here is the Fling "vSphere HTML5 Web Client"  As of writing, 29-03-2016, it is still in development, so help us test. Summary The vSphere HTML5 Web Client is here! It is written using HTML5 and Javascript, and we are looking forward to you trying it in your environment and hearing your feedback! System Requirements 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 14 GB An existing VC6.0 installation (VCSA or Windows). The H5 client appliance will need 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs and the hard disk will grow up to 14 GB. [...]

How to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize operations manager 6.2 part 1

By |2016-10-26T12:43:01+01:00March 14th, 2016|VMware, vRealize|

When you need to upgrade your vCenter Operations manager 5.8, you will need an additional step. First you need to upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 and then do an upgrade to 6.2 version. So In part one I’ll go through the deployment of the appliance, part 2 the initial setup, part 3 the migration of 5.8 to 6.0 and finally part 4 upgrade to 6.2 version of vRealize Operations manager. Part 1: Deploy vRealize operations manager 6.x Start by deploying the vRealize Operations manager appliance. Right click on your cluster/host where you want to deploy and select “Deploy OVF [...]

Change Network adapter type from E1000E to VMXNET3 in vCloud Director

By |2016-10-26T12:43:01+01:00February 2nd, 2016|vcloud director, VMware|

When you use windows 2012 or windows 8 in your environment, you probably run into disconnects from time to time. Setting up a Windows 2012 server in vSphere or vCloud director gives you the standard E1000E adapter. So if you didn’t change it from the start you will need to change it later on. Means little more work and downtime of your sever. So log into your vCloud Director an navigate to your VM machine. Make sure you document the ip address of your NIC, subnet mask, gateway and DNs servers. Power off the vApp if [...]

VMware VirtualCenter Server service not starting after upgrade to windows 2012

By |2016-10-26T12:43:01+01:00January 15th, 2016|VMware|

When you do an in place upgrade from server 2008R2 to windows 2012R2 of your vcenter server, then it comes with error event 7003   The VMware VirtualCenter Server service depends on the following service: ProtectedStorage. This service might not be installed.   the service depends on ProtectedStorage service wich is no longer in windows 2012R2 So to fix this you must edit the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpxd Modify the value “DependOnService” and remove the line “ProtectedStorage” restart your server and the VMware VirtualCenter Server Service should start now. update 20-1-2016: error 1053 VMware Vsphere web client service Ran into [...]

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