In this post, I will describe the storage design I use for my virtual infrastructure lab. I have been using the Community Edition of NexentaStor for the past two and a half year already. And I can tell already in the first paragraph of this post, that it’s a...
Yesterday, while upgrading a new vCenter virtual machine that was created on an ESX 3.5 host, to a new ESXi 5.0 host, we found ourself with a VM that was refusing to start any services. The virtual machine is running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 vCenter 5.0 Update 1 SQL...
I finished the migration from an iPad 3G to the iPad3 4G using iTunes. Everything worked great. I only had to re-enter my passwords for the email accounts, WiFi, and other online services credentials. But this morning, once I was out of range of my house, the WiFi...
With the release of vCloud Director 1.5.1 last night, the operating system for the vCloud Director Cell now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 (x86_64). If you are running your current cell with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6, and you want to upgrade to the most...
When you deploy the vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 vApp in a vSphere 5 Cluster, the vApp import creates a few settings. Here is the screenshot of the default start order. I’m adding this post, because in the past few days I have had to do a Storage vMotion of...
