This is going to be the shortest article ever but needs to be written. If you are running the Oracle 11gR2 client on your vCenter 4.1 Server with Windows 2008 R2, you may need a patch in order to upgrade the vCenter database during a 4.1 to 5.0 upgrade. The Oracle download …
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So here I am again after working a couple days on a troubleshooting issue for a customer during a VMware vCloud upgrade that we finally got fixed. I seem to now be the resident expert on getting the entire stack of VMware vCloud products upgraded in the right order and …
Read More »Here I stand ten years later outside my house raising the American Flag, and the New England Patriots flag for that matter. Today of all days it is significant that I do such a thing. I forgot I had taken it down for the hurricane a couple weeks ago. As …
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Now that vCloud Director 1.5 has been released I wanted to let folks know about the upgrade process that I happened to try out in my lab for the entire stack. This is meant to be only a high level overview, but covers all the major components of vCloud NOT just vCloud …
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I wanted to give some statistics of a few of the sessions I presented to drive home how important these surveys are to us the presenters. David Hill and I presented CIM1264: Private VMware vCloud Architecture Technical Deep Dive three times throughout the week. After each session we made changes BASED solely on …
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This is a follow up to my previous post on what is supported in version 1.0.1 and is updated for version 1.5. You can find most of this in the vCloud Installation Guides and release notes. I have grabbed most of the key pre-requisites, and I may have missed some so please don’t …
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WOW! I think that about sums up my day today here in Las Vegas. I would hesitate to say it could not get any busier…..but that may just jinx myself. I really only got a few hours sleep, not due to nerves about the presentations today, but more about logistics …
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Updated 8/22/11: – Please be sure to SIGN UP at the desk outside the solutions exchange. Many people are not aware you need to sign up to meet 1:1 with the VMworld knowledge Experts This is a humbling thing for me to see, it truly is. Never before have I …
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