Just a quick note that this week I upgraded from VCP on VI3 to VCP on vSphere. This test was quite challenging, but Ive been working with vSphere since it was in beta and had a lot of practical knowledge using the product.
There are mannnnnny other virtualization blogs posting great links to study material. Between [...]
Upgrading an old XP VM to vSphere today, I had an issue when trying to upgrade the VMware Tools. The tools installer tries to remove an old version of VMware Tools.msi, and asks to insert the “VMware Tools” disk and then click “OK”. When browsing for the file, it is looking for a source with [...]
I recently had an issue during SRM testing where the “Test Recovery” passed, but when we ran the actual recovery, it failed. Looking through the logs it looked like SRM or the SRA did not see the full name of the consistency group on the CX. Once we renamed the consistency group with a shorter name, [...]
Today I began my work with VMware’s DR product, SRM. I’ll be using this tool to migrate a few hundred virtual machines from one datacenter to another, not for DR purposes.
The first issue I ran into took me quite a bit of time to figure out. It turns out that if you are not using [...]
By default, tasks in vCenter (such as snapshot deletion) will time out in 900 seconds (15 minutes). If you’d like to modify this setting, it can be done easily…
Modify the vpxd.cfg (C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/VMware/VMware VirtualCenter/vpxd.cfg) file by adding:
<vpxd>
…
<task>
<timeout>timeout_value</timeout>
</task>
….
</vpxd>
The timeout value is specified in seconds.
Note: You must restart VirtualCenter Server after making changes to the [...]
VMware has provided a utility called VMware Site Survey that will run a compatability check against your environment and produce a report that will let you know what, if any, issues you need to fix before turning on Fault Tolerance for VMs.
VMware Shared Utilities
VMwares CPU ID Utility is also a great tool for displaying compatability [...]
