How to upgrade VMware vCenter 6.x to 6.5
So here it is, pictures and all (comic book) guide to upgrade your vCenter to 6.5 based on the today released GA. Mount the downloaded vCenter iso and navigate to… Read more »
Category: Virtualization
VMworld 2016 Announcements
Like most VMware guys you know, this is that week of the year in Barcelona where VMworld is! Not all of us techies can make it to the US version.. (yes… Read more »
VMware Identity Manager 2.7 Fails when catalog.vmwareidentity.com is not reachable
This problem is fixed in VMware Identity Manager 2.71 During the deployment of VMware Identity Manager 2.7 we ran into a nasty bugger. You can get vIDM deployed and basic… Read more »
Deploying VMware Identity Manager on SQL 2014 fails with error ??NULL??
Deploying VMware Identity Manager 2.6 and 2.7 on SQL 2014 with a Database name other then “saas” fails with error message: ??NULL?? So where does this go wrong? When you change… Read more »
Cisco storm control and VMware Virtual SAN 6 Multicast Throughput problems
While deploying Virtual SAN 6 on Cisco hosts for a customer in a existing environment we got snagged by a few buggers. First we had the issue that on the… Read more »
Blog year 2
Happy blog day to me! Yes this site is 2 years online now and going into year 3! Had some fun times, switched domain from laurensvanduijn.nl to vDrone.nl when i… Read more »
vSphere Web Client error #1009 at Update Manager
With the latest version of vSphere it’s now possible to run updates from the web client, so no more windows desktop vSphere client needed and no more switching clients to do… Read more »
VMware Identity Manager 2.6 deployment fails when vm name is too long
Yeah it was me being hopeful the “netbios”name barrier was broken in 2016 but noooo.. Tried deploying Identity Manager with the name: vDrone-IdentityManager. Well vSphere accepts but when deployed you get… Read more »
Upgrading vRealize Operations (vROps) 6.1 to 6.2
First download the 6.2 upgrade PAK files from the My VMware Portal. You will required TWO upgrade PAK files, one to upgrade the vApps OS, the other to upgrade the vROps… Read more »
Updating VCSA using VAMI from 6.0u1 to 6.0u2 stuck at 70%
If you update VCSA (vCenter or PSC) 6.0 U1 using VAMI (patching directly from internet or using local repository/mounted iso), the update may hang at 70%. If you face this… Read more »