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Minor VMware updates released on December 20

Minor VMware updates released on December 20

VMware announced some updates for several products: VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2 VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0b VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.2 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 VMware vCloud Connector 2.0 VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2 What’s New Not much new here. Mostly support for additional guest operating systems and some resolved issues. For more information read the release notes. VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 What’s New This release offers the following…

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Script fails “SOAP request error – possibly a protocol issue”

Script fails “SOAP request error – possibly a protocol issue”

After upgrading a server to Ubuntu 12.04 (from 10.04) and the vSphere SDK for Perl to the latest version one of my scripts started running into a problem giving me a SOAP request error. After digging into the update logs I found that this problem happened due Net-HTTP being upgraded to 6.05 (from 6.03), after a downgrade to 6.03 the problem was resolved. You can downgrade by running the following command.

New Fling: Lctree by VMware Labs

New Fling: Lctree by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called Lctree which is short for Linked Clone Tree Visualizer for vCloud Director. The download is available as tar package and the total size is about 17MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Lctree is a tool designed for the visualization of linked clone VM trees created by VMware vCloud Director. Linked clone is a feature available in vSphere that creates a clone of a VM from a snapshot point. The new VM’s disks…

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Home lab upgrade: a new host!

Home lab upgrade: a new host!

I have been running a home lab for about 3-4 years. What started with 1 server with a local disk (Dell R200) pretty soon evolved into 2 servers (2x DELL R200) and a small cluster was born. This all started with VMware ESX 3.5 and back then 2x 8GB hosts would be enough to test several appliances/tools. Sadly appliances and virtual machines became more and more (mostly) memory consuming and I added my desktop as an extra “server” (with another…

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Free Training: VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals [V5.1]

Free Training: VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals [V5.1]

VMware announced a FREE online training course called “VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals [5.1]“. This course is a self-paced course which lasts 3.5 hours and it’s available through myLearn training. The VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals self-paced course introduces students to the components, architecture, functions, and benefits of vCloud Director. For more information regarding vCloud Director I suggest reading the “what’s new” document. Objectives Briefly explain cloud computing Recognize cloud implementations Identify VMware vCloud Director functions and benefits Analyze vCloud Director architecture…

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