Today VMware released the new VMware vSphere 6. I was running the Beta for a long time and I must say it was working very good. VMware vSphere 6 VMware vSphere 6 Whats New The release of vSphere 6 is already exciting but there is one additional extrem cool new product from VMware called VIO (VMware Integrated …

Normally VMware offers only the WebClient as standalone on Windows but there is a nice way to run the Webclient on linux and save the license costs for the Windows machine. Install your Windows vCenter including SSO. As next step you import the vCenter Appliance and configure the SSO to use the existing SSO of your …

I faced multiple times the issue that after the installation of VMware tools the iso has not been clean unmounted. This can prevent virtual machine from live migration by VMotion. Mostly the root cause is related to the fact that the “eject” command is missing in the guest operating system. So to fix you could try to …

Last week I started to play around with Openstack in combination with VMware vCenter. I used Devstack as baseline and configured the VMware support. I wasn’t expecting that it will directly work but it did. The configuration is described in the OpenStack Wiki. As environment I used 3 HP Dl360 G7 (2xQuad Core, 96GB …

There are new online trainings and corresponding exam’s available. VMware Certified Associate – Cloud VMware Certified Associate – Data Centre Virtualication VMware Certified Associate – Workforce Mobility later on a 4th one will follow VMware Certified Associate – Network Virtualization I successfully passed VCA-Cloud …

I faced this issue in my environment multiple times now. If I try to consolidate I get an error message “Unable to access file since it is locked” An easy way to get this resolved is, you shutdown the virtual machine and afterwards migrate it to a different host and datastore. After this migration you can consolidate …

To remove an VSA cluster you have to execute an script which is part of the VSA Manager. Details:

Based on the response of VMware on a SR it is possible to increase the memory of a VDP appliance to 16GB.

If you are facing issues with failed VDP backups try to increase the memory of the VDP appliances to 8GB. In my environment this has improved the situation. Still issues but 50% less.

I’m running 10 VDP appliance in an environment and I’m facing massive issues with backup. Sometimes the backup of all VM’s was successful but most of the time only a few virtual machines were successful. If someone else is facing equal issues would be great if you could post an comment. In the meantime I have opened an …