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...
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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...
VMworld 2012 US is over.
After one week full of virtualization and in the middle of my vacation, it’s time for a short recap of VMworld 2012 US. The first big announcement was that VMware got rid of the...
Upgrade to vSphere 5 Update 1 with MSCS
ESXi 5.0 uses a different technique to determine if Raw Device Mapped (RDM) LUNs are used for MSCS cluster devices. During a boot of an ESXi system the storage mid-layer attempts to discover all...
VMware released Horizon Application Manager 1.5
Yesterday VMware finally released the Horizon Application Manager 1.5. For more Information check this blog post.