I’m still getting used to the important part vCenter SSO (Single Sign-On) is playing in vSphere 5.1. In my home lab I was switching domain controllers from W2k8 to Windows 2012. Transferred FSMO roles, integrated DNS, changed IP addresses for DNS on all servers and all seemed fine. My w2k8-dom01 server was demoted and removed. […]
vCloud can’t delete Organizational VDC
In my last VMware vCloud Director project I ran into an issue that I want to share with you. Initially the design was to create two OrgVDC to use different allocation models, but the resources would be almost the same because it was only a fairly small environment. I created one Edge Gateway and two […]
VMware vCloud 5.1 network troubleshooting
When creating NAT and firewall rules in a vCloud environment, not everything works out directly the way you had planned. This post will show you how to use Splunk to collect sys logs from the vCloud environment and make it an easy to use tool when performing some network troubleshooting. Splunk comes in a number […]
[Review] Stormagic SvSAN 5
In November 2009 I already did a review on StorMagic’s SvSAN and was then very pleased with the product. Now, three years later I’m again reviewing SvSAN and am anxious to see if in those three years SvSAN has improved. The Concept For those not familiar with StorMagic SvSAN I will shortly explain what SvSAN does. […]
Don’t be a dumbass, check the VMware Compatibility Guides!
Too often I read upgrade plans or visit sites with plans to upgrade VMware products or buy new hosts and notice that the VMware Compatibility Guides have never been checked when making plans. First thing I always do when changing big parts in a virtual infrastructure is to dive into the compatibility guides to check […]