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Pre-requisites VMware vCenter 5.X VMware SSO Active Directory Group for VCO Admins Configure SSO Permissions for VCO Login to WebClient Browse to Administration / Access / SSO Users and Groups If required you can create Group called VCO Admin and Add the users you want. For demonstration purpose I have…
We were facing issues with Use Windows Credentials option in vSphere Client while accessing vCenter via domain credentials Following troubleshooting performed along with resolution Error Cannot Complete login due to an incorrect username or password Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 Update b Troubleshooting Steps Ensured the Identity Source configuration is correct…
Disk Alignment Login to NetApp OnCommand System Manager Navigate to Disks under storage. Select the available disks and Add to Aggregate. It can be to default aggregate (aggr0) or create a new iSCSI Configuration Ensure iSCSI license is Enabled Ensure iSCSI service is running Create Volume Groups Create LUNs Snap…
The Flackbox blog has an updated ‘How to Build a NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab’ PDF guide which covers the latest version of ONTAP’ Download Simulator (Simulate ONTAP 8.2 for VMware ESX – 7Mode) http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/simulator/ontap/8.X/ Unzip the VM along with license file (VSIM Licenses: 8.2 licenses 7-Mode) Upload the VM to…
Current vCenter Linux Appliance had limitation of maximum 5 Hosts and 50 VMs due to embedded database. With the release of vSphere 5.5, vCenter Server Appliance now uses a reengineered, embedded database that can now support as many as 500 vSphere hosts or 5,000 virtual machines http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf
This 5.5 release offers several enhancements, These enhancements include: Greater Scalability – Configurations have doubled from previous limits when it comes to physical CPUs, memory and NUMA nodes. Virtual disk files also now scale up to 64TBs. vSphere Customization for Low Latency Applications – vSphere with Operations Management can be…
VMware introduced this feature in vSphere 5.1 where it allows backup of the distributed switch Following are the observations while performing the test Observations This is only possible from web client It gives you 2 options while exporting the configuration. Only distributed switch only & Distributed Switch and all port…
Setup VMware vCenter 5.X VMware SRM 5.X Particulars We manage Customers DR environment using VMware SRM. Currently VMware PowerCLI doesn’t have any SRM specific cmdlets so we have written this script in Python to capture following details and export them in a Excel File. Number of Protected VMs Protected VM…