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[Orchestrator] Use VUM to Upgrade the vCO vApp

April 3, 2012

Incase you have more than a small hand full of vCO vApps handy, you can use vApp functionality in VUM to upgrade vCO. You’ll need to do the following to get that going: Create the vApp Baseline Creating a vApp baseline works much like creating other baselines. On the home page of your vSphere client [...]

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April #vBrownBags

April 2, 2012

With storage month behind us, April is now here, and with that, some more vBrownBags: Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/613559281 Presenter Topic Date N/A Game Show 4/4/12 Jake Robinson PowerCLI 201 4/11/12 @Texiwill vSphere Security 4/18/12 Open vSphere Security 4/25/12 If you have anyone you recommend to fill the open slot… let me know.

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Installing VMware Update Manager Download Service

April 2, 2012

Before getting into installing, let’s take a second to talk about what the Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) is and when you’d use it. As the name implies, UMDS is a service that will go and fetch patch notifications, metadata, and binaries that is separate from your VUM install. When would that be useful? In [...]

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[APAC] vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCD Cluster Design

March 29, 2012

Video Slides More! Did you know there are now a metric boatload of ways to get the vBrownBags? In addition to live and the follow-up posts, you can pull the podcast from these places also: iTunes – http://bit.ly/BrownbagiTunesRSS – http://bit.ly/BrownbagPodcast

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vBrownBag Follow-Up – vSphere Storage w/ Ravi Part 2

March 29, 2012

We both started and finished vSphere Storage month with Ravi Venkat, and what a wonderfully informative month it was. This weeks recording & slides are below: Video Slides More! Did you know there are now a metric boatload of ways to get the vBrownBags? In addition to live and the follow-up posts, you can pull [...]

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After vCenter 5.0 U1 Upgrade, vCO Client Issues

March 27, 2012

For better or worse, I run my vCO Client from the vCenter Server in my lab, up till today, that wasn’t an issue either. That is, after upgrading to vCenter 5.0 U1 I was presented with: “You may not have the appropriate permissions.” – What? Ok… let’s browse to the directory: Even after clicking “Continue” [...]

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Upgrading vCenter Orchestrator

March 27, 2012

If you rolled out vCO before the vApp was released, the upgrade path is a bit different than “click here to upgrade”. Here’s the steps: Snapshot/Clone or otherwise backup vCO and your database. Launch the VCO installer (install media \ vCenter-Server\vCO): Click upgrade: Next: Change the SSL Keys (up to you): Next Next Click install, [...]

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[VUM] Configure Update Manager to use a Service Account

March 26, 2012

There are a few situations you might want to do this, security and least privileged accounts comes to mind, as does auditability. However, you will also need to do this when your SQL server is using Windows Authentication. Otherwise you’ll run into: “There was an error connecting to VMware Update Manager… Database temporarily unavailable or [...]

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Open Compute Platform & vSphere 5

March 23, 2012

So, outside of a few home drama items recently, there has been a new addition from the Open Compute Platform project, and that is a v 1.0 Intel platform. About Open Compute In April 2011, Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (Announcement) with a stated goal of making servers and datacenters more efficient. The 1.0 [...]

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