Scenario: I want to move vCenter DB from the bundled SQL 2005 express to a standalone SQL 2008. The SQL Native Client required for the upgrade is 10.0 To check what version you have running (on SQL 2005): Run regedit -> Computer->HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Microsoft SQL Native Client/Current Version. As you see from the screenshot I Read More…
Category: VMware
VMware : Check new notifications are queued
Software: Vcenter 5.0 All your “Check new notifications” are queued when viewing via your client. This is very easy to fix. Log into your vCenter server. Go to Services and then restart the “VMware vSphere Update Manager Service”
Veeam/VMware Error: Failed to parse “.”
OS: Centos6.2 (64bit) running on ESXi5 / Veeam 6.0 Scenario: I tried to backup a freshly created VM with Veeam Backup but get the message: Error: Failed to parse “.” Looking at the .vmx file there appeared to be an incomplete value: isolation. =”true” I removed this then, bingo! Please note that you”ll need to switch Read More…
Adding a local user to vCenter Virtual Appliance
It appears that the VC 5.o appliance doesn’t ship with any method of adding a local user via the vSphere client. As my customers deployment only required a couple of local users setting up a NIS or an AD server was pointless. Therefore to add a local user: 1) SSH to vCenter appliance 2) Add Read More…
Setting up VMware Tools in Centos
I always forget how to do this and end up Googling for the answer. You may be doing the same right now. The following example is on vSphere 5 with a Centos 6.x guest OS but I assume it will work with RHEL as well. 1) Initiate the VMware Tools installer (Guest -> Install/Upgrade VMware Read More…
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