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Comment on vSphere 5 vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Quick-Start Guide by vCenter Server Virtual Appliance – Changing SSL Certs Made Easy « Long White Virtual Clouds

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:18:15 +0000

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Comment on Creating vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick by criticalerror

criticalerror — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:41:48 +0000

The point in using Winimage is to duplicate the image to multiple USB sticks quickly for deployment to multiple hosts.

Comment on vSphere 5 vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Quick-Start Guide by John

John — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:57:41 +0000

Java and Mono (dotNet for linux) 8) Neither of these play nice with memory management.

Comment on vSphere 5 vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Quick-Start Guide by John

John — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:50:45 +0000

I’d probably say use 5.0 in a lab, and wait for 5.1 for production deployment 8)

Comment on vSphere 5 vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Quick-Start Guide by DJ

DJ — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:35:28 +0000

Hi Hugo, Good guide. I have vCSA set-up and running and need to be able to script the start-up and tear-down of servers using snapshots. Now, I am a VMWare novice and, from what I read, I need to use vMA for scripting so I have deployed that too. However, I cannot get the vMA to see the vCSA and I have to use IP addresses and not DNS names as I have no control over the AD that all computers are added to. So is there something extra I need to get the vMA to see the vCSA (e.g. must use DNS name) or can I script what I want directly from the vCSA/

Comment on VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) Feature Parity by Q&A for those new to ESXi 5 (Cloning, Sound, and USB 2.0 handling) | Tinkertry

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:41:48 +0000

[...] vCenter appliance, which gives you all the capability you need, just some very minor limitations: vmwire.com/2011/08/09/vmware-vcenter-server-virtual-appliance-vcsa-feature-parity Here’s the 3 files you need (it was quite hard to find these direct links): authenticate the [...]

Comment on VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) Feature Parity by Brad Clemmons

Brad Clemmons — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:26:03 +0000

The compatibility matrix for SRM5 specifically calls out the Windows version of vCenter,

Comment on Enabling VMXNET 3 for PXEBOOT and KICKSTART of RHEL Virtual Machines by manas2

manas2 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:38:16 +0000

Very helpful!

Comment on VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) features and benefits by Dave

Dave — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:54:45 +0000

One thing to be aware of, this apparently is not being widely adopted yet; at least according to VMware tech I’m working with. My vCenter has been down for a week. i installed vCSA back in September and it ran like a top until last week when I noticed the thin provisioned disks had maxed out. I logged into the console and the logs had not been rolling over and had maxed out the slice dedicated to them. I opened a ticket with VMWare and while I’ve gotten lots of attention they still do not have a solution. Something is preventing the database from quiescing long enough for the logs to be processed and pruned. Still not sure what the issue is but I wish VMWare was more on top of something they were selling. Fortunately for me I have a fairly small and static environment, no DRS, so not having vCenter running kills my monitoring ability but that is about it. I do need it running again soon though so hopefully they can figure out what is wrong. Not looking forward to starting from scratch or returning to Windows based host due to lengthy install.

Comment on vSphere 5 vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Quick-Start Guide by Ted Johnston

Ted Johnston — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:13:04 +0000

Tried to change the hostname and IP on current 5.0 version. Could not from login. If I used DHCP, it would set the DNS, but using static, it would not. Created a reservation in my DHCP for the machine and now it sets the static ip along with the DNS and the hostname.

Interesting.