Archive for October, 2012
vSphere 5.1 compatibility with VMware View
Posted by Brad Christian in Uncategorized on October 30, 2012
Better late than never, View 5.1 is now compatible with vSphere 5.1! I wonder if they share an interface now…
Re-IP vCenter 5.1 and the joys of SSO
Posted by Brad Christian in Uncategorized on October 18, 2012
I did my first production deployment of vCenter 5.1, and sure enough, there was a glitch. The admin of the system changed his mind on the VLAN scheme after Single Sign-On, the Inventory service and vCenter components were setup on a linked-mode DR vCenter. I didn’t have to do every step of KB 2033620 but it sure helped.
The new web interface sure is slick, but I keep bringing up up the old tried and true interface. VMware View sure has put me off of Flash, thats for sure.
SSO is not fun.
Passed the VCAP-DCD
Posted by Brad Christian in Certification, VMware on October 11, 2012
I passed the VCAP-DCD exam on Tuesday! That test was beating- 4 hours is a long time for an exam. The test is covered by an NDA, so I can’t go into much detail about it, but if you are planning on taking it, be sure to check out the APAC vBrownbag sessions.
Here is the perm-link for resources on passing it.
Razor is the bomb
Posted by Brad Christian in ESXi, VMware on October 11, 2012
Yesterday we had a great inaugral Regional Conference at the Dallas/Fort Worth VMware Users Group (#DFWVMUG). My favorite session by far was on Razor, a really badass open-source project by Nick Weaver (@lynxbat on twitter).
Razor is a bare-metal deployment tool, but it is so much more than that. I used to be a fan of stateless ESX using boot-from-SAN. Then I became a fan of Auto-Deploy. Now that all seems like too much work! Razor and PXE will make it all so simple!
One of the biggest bummers about VMware licensing is no Auto-deploy or Host profiles for Enterprise and lower licenses. That is a whole lot less painful now, especially since the smaller shops that can’t afford Enterprise Plus licensing need consistency more than bigger shops with more staff.
Watch a great video of Nick explaining what Razor can do.
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