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vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 released

vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 released

VMware released update 2 for vCenter Server 5.1 which adds some nice features and enhancements. If you haven’t updated to vSphere 5.5 yet make sure you update your 5.1 environment. What’s new? So what’s new with this update? vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 Additional Guest Operating System Customization Support: vCenter now supports Windows 8.1 RHEL 6.4 Windows Server 2012 R2 SLES 11 Service Pack 3 Database support added for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Service Pack…

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vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1a released

vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1a released

VMware finally released an update for vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 which resolves the SSO login bug (KB for this issue). This release replaces the 5.1 Update 1 download so make sure you replace your 5.1 Update 1 ISO with the 5.1 Update 1a ISO! Keep in mind that there are some things that still won’t work, for a clear explanation check out the KB. Happy updating!

Sending vCenter Alarm Notifications to Jabber

Sending vCenter Alarm Notifications to Jabber

If you are a person like me who uses Jabber to communicate with other people and you administrator a VMware environment the following post might be useful for you. If you don’t use your own Jabber/XMPP server, you can use your Gmail account and connect to the Google XMPP servers. VMware vCenter comes with a standard set of alarms which can be configured with a few options: – Send a notification email – Send a notification trap – Run a…

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Combining Veeam and PowerCLI

Combining Veeam and PowerCLI

Veeam Backup & Replication is a great tool for backing up your virtual environment. U can use it to backup certain virtual machines or your whole environment by simply creating backup jobs in which u add virtual machines. Veeam has the option which sends an e-mail if a backup was successful or failed. Sadly there is one thing I couldn’t find and it’s an option to check which virtual machines are being backed up and which are not in a…

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Moving locked VM’s in ESXi using SSH

Moving locked VM’s in ESXi using SSH

VMware vSphere is a very nice piece of virtualization software. Sadly there are a few things that can go wrong and I had the “luck” to hit one of those. Waking up on a morning to notice that 4 VM’s are offline because of the ESXi host going down (hardware failure) isn’t something you want to wake up with. The worst news was that it was a new host which hadn’t been added to a cluster yet so no HA…

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