You may be running you critical applications in a virtual datacenter protected with VMware vSphere High Availability today, but are you making good use of all the other VMware features that are available to protect your applications? You may want to take a few moments to review these features, some of which may not cost you any additional software licensing fees, and decide if any of these may be useful to help you comply with your Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Application Protection: Feature = vSphere App HA - monitors specific software application services that run in your virtual machines via custom VMware Tools heartbeats, identifies service failures, and restarts services as needed. If the service restart is unsuccessful, then it could restart the virtual machine. Guest OS Protection: Feature = vSphere High Availability - monitors
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The certification exams for VCAP5-DCA and VCAP5-DCD on vSphere versions 5.0/5.1 are set to expire on January 31, 2015. The exams for vSphere version 5.5 will continue to be available. So, if you plan to seek the VCAP5-DCA certification and prefer to be tested on vSphere 5.0 / 5.1, then you should plan to take […]
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Recently, on a professional services engagement, we encountered a situation, where the Customization Wizard was failing to successfully apply SYSPREP to Windows 2012 Servers. Because our main objective and my time was focused on other areas, we could not take time to resolve the underlying the root cause, so we needed a work-around. This […]
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Here is a slick way using host profiles. It calls for using a host profile and using the Configure a fixed administrator password option. Details at: http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-reset-esxi-5-x-root-password-and-under-which-conditions/ But, it may not be supported. The statement in the following KB article indicates that the only supported way to reset the root account password on […]
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Frequently, on my professional services engagements, my customer will ask me which NIC Teaming Load Balancing option is the best choice when configuring virtual switch port group in VMware vSphere. The following represents my typical answer: Here are guidelines for choosing the best NIC Teaming Load Balancing policy: Based on IP hash – Use this […]
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