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VCDX Design Exam passed

joinvm — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:03:19 +0000

Hi,

yesterday i passed the Design Exam – score 415 .

greets, chris

VCP4

joinvm — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:10:58 +0000

Hi,

passed the VCP4 Exam these days – scored 400

Greets, Chris

Unattended Install vSphere vCenter Client and Plug-Ins

joinvm — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:08:45 +0000

Hi,

you can install vSphere vCenter Client silent using this commandline (for an english installation):

start /wait c:\VMware-viclient.exe /q /s /w /L1033 /v” /passive /norestart”

Afterwards you can copy the plugin-directories (f.e. from another client, where you have manually installed the client/plugins, or from the vcenter server’s directory) to your new client:

C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Plugins\Site Recovery Manager

C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Plugins\Update Manager 4.0 Update1

…

It also works for vCenter Client 2.5 same way.

This is it

Greets, Chris

Blade Feature Matrix

joinvm — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:43:05 +0000

Hi,

just to let you know, I’m working on a Feature-Matrix for these different Blade-Center Solutions as an evaluation for vSphere:

HP C-Class Blades / VirtualConnect Flex-10, Cisco 3210, Cisco Nexus 4000
FTS BX900 / BX920 S1 / VIMA
Cisco UCS / Palo-Card

I’ll post the Matrix as soon as I’m far the way down.

Greets, Chris

Haveing problems with 3.5 esx-server in vcenter 4.0 after you upgraded your 2.5 vcenter to vsphere ? Error Message: Cannot upgrade vCenter agent on ESX in CLUSTER. Cannot upload agent.

joinvm — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:17:21 +0000

Hi,

today I had an issue with 3.5 ESX-Servers in vCenter 4.0. I upgraded the vCenter from a 2.5 (Update 5) to vSphere (4.0) before this Issue occured. After the Upgrade it was not possible to add 3.5 ESX-Servers to the vCenter and also (after a while) all ESX-Servers where disconnected. When I tried to reconnect or add a new ESX I got this Error-Message:

Error Message: Cannot upgrade vCenter agent on in . Cannot upload agent.

After a Call with VMware BCS-Support, the following solution was tested and worked out for all my ESX-Server (via connect or add, both worked out fine).

Have a look on your vCenter vSphere Server if this Directory exists:

C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\upgrade

If it’s not there, you have the same issue I had.

Now you have 2 ways to solve this:

Reinstall your vCenter
Copy the directory from another vCenter (Version 4, not 2.5, otherwise all of your ESX-Servers will get an old vCenter Agent deployed and won’t be able to connect to your vSphere vCenter !!!). I did it this way, which is easy – just install vSphere vCenter on a blank Windows 2003 and you’ll have your upgrade-Directory ready to copy to your live-vCenter.

Now you have to restart your Virtual Center Service on your vCenter.

And now it’s time to reconnect or add your Hosts J ! That’s it !

If you want to find out the installed Version of vCenter Agent on your ESX-Server:

# rpm -qa | grep vpxa

VMware-vpxa-2.5.0-147633 if you use vCenter 2.5

VMware-vpxa-4.0.0-162856 if you use vCenter 4.0

Below you’re see some Hardcopys of the Directories – how it should be and should NOT be:

Hardcopy 1 – That’s how it should look like – 105 Files – 411 MB

Hardcopy 2 – That’s how it should NOT look like – 53 Files – 169 MB – This is from a vCenter 2.5 (Original Directory Name is “upgrade”, not “upgrade old”)

Useful VMware KB’s for manual deinstallation of vcenter agent on ESX-Servers:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003714

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1009919&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=22458555&stateId=1%200%2022460656

Hopefully it helps

Greet, Chris

VCDX – Enterprise Admin Exam done and passed !

joinvm — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:54:45 +0000

Hi,

at VMworld i took my Enterprise Admin Exam and passed

So let’s work on Enterprise Design now !

Greet, Chris

VTSP 4 – Certification done – Professional Partner Status Approved

joinvm — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:43:08 +0000

Hi,

got my VTSP 4 Zertifikation now and approved my Professional Partner Status!

Greets, Chris

VMware vCenter Server 2.5 Update 5 is Generally Available

joinvm — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:04:29 +0000

VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 5 primarily fixes some important known issues and includes significant performance and scalability improvements to VMware High Availability (HA). Use VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 5 for environments with more than 35 virtual machines per host in an HA cluster.

For details regarding the new fixes and improvements, please refer to the release notes.

vCenter Server 2.5 Update 5 is available for download.

For details regarding compatibility, please view here.

Greets, Chris

New/Updated NetApp Best Practices PDFs for VI3 and vSphere

joinvm — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:12:00 +0000

Hi,

there are 2 Doc’s you really should have an eye on (one is new, one is updated):

NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 – Storage Best Practices
July 2009 | TR-3428 | Version 4.5.2

http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3428.pdf

NetApp and VMware vSphere – Storage Best Practices
June 2009 | TR-3749 | Version 1.0

http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3749.pdf

Greets, Chris

PSOD when CPU0 died

joinvm — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:10:11 +0000

Hi,

got a PSOD when CPU0 died on a FSC RX600 S4: