It seems I have had a number of the same conversations in recent weeks about a very particular topic, and some could argue a design flaw, with the most basic of VMware vSphere deployments. This has to do with using an overly simplistic deployment whereby the ESX host is only …
Read More »vCenter 5.5 Appliance Root Password Expired
Yep. It happened to me this week about 15 minutes before a Varrow vCloud Air Deep Dive presentation where I was going to do live demos. You have to love the live demo, right? Well, when it happened I first found Mike Foley’s blog post about how to disable the …
Read More »vCloud Air vSphere Plugin Now Available
You may have seen that the new vCloud Air plugin for the vSphere Web Client is not available. This was shown at VMworld and is now available adding a load of vCloud Air management right into the vSphere Web Client. You can get the downloads and the documentation below. I …
Read More »Don’t Be Confused VMware HA != VMotion
Okay, this may sound like something of the most basic things to know, but I am posting this as I still hear how these two things are used interchangeably. In most cases, it has to do with trying to design a multi-site vSphere deployment where you are trying to let …
Read More »Voting is Open for 2013 Top 25 vBlogs
In case you haven’t heard the voting is now open for the 2013 Top 25 vBlogs at vSphere Land. Last year I was humbled and surprised for my blog to come from nowhere to the 21st on the list. I am hoping that I can stay in the top 25 …
Read More »Workaround for vSphere 5.1 Guest Unable to collect IPv4 routing table
Folks this has become an interesting discussion on a VMware Community Forum as of a few weeks ago about this vSphere 5.1 error. In fact I myself ran into the same issue on a new build with the vCloud Service Evaluation cloud a couple of weeks ago. I decided being …
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