I recently upgraded a vsphere deployment from 5.1 to 5.5. I then wanted to upgrade the templates to the new VM HW and VM Tools. Upon attempting this the convert to virtual machine option was grayed out. To fix this we simply need to remove the template from the inventory and re-add it. To add Read More…
Month: March 2015
Features in vSphere Traditional Client Versus Web Client in 5.5
As we all know by now VMware are steering end users away from the traditional vSphere client and towards the web client. Below is a list of features that the other doesn't support. Traditional vSphere Client – Resource maps – Update Manager. Users are able to scan hosts and attach baselines in the web client Read More…
Upgrading vCloud Director ESXi Hosts
In my environment to fully upgrade to vcloud suite 5.5 I would have to use the following order: A) vCloud Director B) vCNS (vShield Manager) C) vCenter D) ESXi hosts E) vShield Edge In this post I will be discussing the process of upgrading the ESXi hosts from 5.1 to 5.5 1) In vCloud Read More…
Single LUN Inactive on One Host
Scenario: I have 7 hosts connecting to an Equallogic Group (2 x 6000s). There are 3 LUNs visible to each host and locked down to specific ISCI IP range. ( eg 172.17.16.0/24). All 6 hosts could see all 3 luns but one 1 host could only see 2 of the 3 LUNs available. The protocol is Read More…
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