vSphere vs. Hyper-V – Polygraphs don’t lie
After putting a Microsoft employee under a polygraph test, he had some quite interesting things to say. Watch the whole test here. đŸ˜‰
Category: VMware
vCenter Operations for View 1.5 – Part 1: Deploy and configure vCenter Operations 5.7
I’m doing a vCenter Operations for View deployment and I thought I can write a short 4 part series about it. In Part 1 I will describe the requirements for the vApp deployment and the...
Cannot change Guest OS and Guest OS version through the Web Client
Today I downloaded the TurnKey WordPress Appliance to see if it's a good source for my WordPress Dev environment. When I tried to deploy the appliance I got the follwoing error message: The specified operating...
vSphere ESXi 5.0 Update 2 and Nexus 1000v
A few weeks ago I upgraded some Clusters at a customer site from 5.0 U1 to 5.0 U2. All of the cluster used the Nexus 1000v (N1kv) for network connectivity. It was the first time...
VCAP-CIA (Cloud Infrastructure Administrator) Beta Experience
On February 13th an ex-colleague forwarded a VCAP-CID Beta inventation to me. My first thought was that there must be a mistake, because VCAP-CID was already GA. But after a closer look I saw...
Imtech ICT Austria GmbH promoted to VMware Premier Status
In February I have started my new job at Imtech ICT Austria GmbH as a Senior System Consultant, mostly for VMware und Citrix. So who is Imtech ICT Austria GmbH. Imtech ICT Austria is...
vCenter 5.x Hardware Status is not available
Problem In the Hardware Status tab of the vCenter you see following message: No new host data available. Data will be updated in 5 minutes When you click Update after a few seconds this...
vSphere 5.x Consolidation fails
I got a problem where a VM needs consolidation because of 90 delta files on the datastore. Consolidation is a new feature in vSphere 5.x, which merges all delta file into the base vmdk, althought...
VMworld 2012 Europe Partner Day
Second day for me at VMworld Europe and it's partner day. I got up at 7am and I was at the Fira de Barcelona at 8:15. After a one hour walk I finally found...
VMworld 2012 Europe Day Zero
Finally I have made it to Barcelona. My flight had a 40 minute delay and on Twitter I could read the messages about the public transport strike. Great isn't it? All the Austrian Partner...