This isn’t really a blog where you will get a recipe on how to implement VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) or InfiniBand technologies, but more a small account of my troubles I experienced yesterday with my infrastructure. I did publish a picture yesterday on twitter,...
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...
Creating new databases for VMware vCenter is something I have to do over and over again. I use mostly Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 so here are six quick procedures to simplify the creation and make all your vCenter databases to the same standard. I keep my...
