Site Recovery Manager 6.0 Installation
Installation of VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.0 Pre-requisites for VMware Site Recovery Manager Installation New Database has to be created on MS SQL 2008/2012 R2. Create an SQL Service account with appropriate permissions Create an ODBC connection to the newly created database Download the SRM and SRA installable Install Java…
VMware vCenter 6.0 Installation
Creating System DSN Connection Following screen shots illustrates Creation of System DSN Connection to connect with remote Microsoft SQL Database which is already created by SQL admins. Ø Go to Start à Administrative Tools à Select Data Sources (ODBC) Ø Select System DSN Tab. Ø Click on Add Ø Select SQL…
VMware 5.x Products End of General Support in 2016
As per Latest VMware Life Cycle Product Matrix, following are the key VMware 5.x Products which goes End of General Support on 24th August 2016 Product General Availability End of General Support End of Technical Guidance VMware ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 2011/08/24 2016/08/24 2018/08/24 VMware vCenter 5.0 and 5.1 2011/08/24…
vSphere 6.0 Released
Today at a live event in San Francisco VMware launched new offerings under theme of One Cloud Any Application. Following products were revelaed as part of the event VMware vSphere 6 VMware Virtual SAN 6 VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes vCloud Air Hybrid Networking Services powered by VMware NSX VMware Integrated…
VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal – IOS & Android Application
Key Features: Evaluation Videos: A library of support videos and evaluation guides helping you learn more about VMware products. What\’s New: Complete set of product documentation, datasheets, informative white papers and much more. Best Practices: Best practices and advice from VMware experts on all our offerings. Product Walkthroughs: sandbox-type demos…
VMware Fling – vMax Guide
vMaxGuide is an Android application which provides the maximum supported configurations of the following vSphere versions: vSphere 5.5 vSphere 5.1 vSphere 5.0 vMaxGuide also provides a comparative view of components across the three versions of vSphere along with the comparison of virtual Hardware versions of Virtual Machines. https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmaxguide
Service Enhancements for vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
Highlights of these new features include: Native failback support – provides seamless reverse replication from vCloud Air data centers to a customer’s environment, as well as support for offline data transfer via physical disk, to accommodate larger environments. Multiple recovery points – enables multiple point-in-time copies of replicated VM(s), allowing…
SRM 5.8 Express Patch Release
Site Recovery Manager 5.8.0.1 fixes the following issues: Port groups on specific switches are not displayed when configuring network mappings in Site Recovery Manager 5.8, when a vSphere Distributed Switch contains more than 19 port groups. This fix resolves the issue described in When configuring Network Mappings within VMware vCenter…