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vSphere Upgrade Saga: VMware vCops 5 Enterprise

May 15, 2012
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I have been using vCops Advanced since v1.0, but wanted to get more of an experience with vCops Enterprise. Specifically, the most recent GA version 5. Installing all the different components of vCops Enterprise is not a task for the faint of heart and there are so many pre-requisites, that it becomes increasing...

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Remediate Updates when vCops or vShield in Use

April 23, 2012
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Remediation of vSphere patches when vCops and vShield is in use poses several problems. These problems came to be as I prepared myself to apply the most recent set of updates. Actually my first updates since moving to vSphere 5. The problems can...

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: vShield Edge Missing Manual

February 12, 2012
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vSphere Upgrade Saga: vShield Edge Missing Manual

I bit the bullet and implemented vShield Edge within my environment along side my existing virtual firewall (thankfully I have some other IP available). But this was not without its problems, it appears there is some critical information missing from the manuals. After a...

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Fixing VMware VDR

January 25, 2012
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I have been running VMware Data Recovery (VDR) through its paces for quite a while now and while it works, I am not sold on it yet. I...

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Setting up a RHEL iSCSI Server

January 16, 2012
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When using the RHEL scsi-target-utils, there is some special mojo needed when connecting to vSphere 5 (perhaps any version of vSphere). Unlike the iSCSI Enterprise Target (IET), the new...

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Migrating Existing Hosts to vSphere 5, Host Profiles not Enough!

January 11, 2012
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This is the week end I move all my existing hosts to vSphere 5, to make way for some other work. Actually, I will migrate 2 of 3 hosts,...

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