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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a disaster recovery product which uses array replication technologies to failover from one site to another. Shared Recovery Site (also called N-to-1) is a new feature of SRM 4.x and 5.0. This feature allows the management of multiple SRM environments by a single…
Application View for vCenter Site Recovery Manager shows the application dependencies between virtual machines in a disaster recovery site. This tool is packaged as a standalone virtual appliance, which can be easily set up in an environment which runs vCenter, vCenter Site Recovery Manager, and vCenter Infrastructure Navigator. vCenter Site…
Pre-requisites Ensure the vCenter Manged IP Address is configured so that the vCenter Infrastructure Navigator virtual appliance can access the vCenter Server If you deploy the vCenter Infrastructure Navigator virtual appliance on the vCenter Server, the virtual appliance is deployed without a license key. Installation & Configuration Deploy Virtual Appliance…
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