I was importing the VC Ops virtual appliance and during the import I got a question around IP addresses. So I figured I would enter two IP addresses and that would be it. As soon as I powered on the VM I received the following error: Cannot initialize property ‘vami.netmask0.VM_1′ since network ‘VM Network’ has no associated IP Pools configuration. [...]

I haven’t seen anyone reporting this yet, even the scoopmeister Eric Sloof has posted this. I just heard (thanks for the anonymous tip) that the date has changed for VMworld Europe! Don’t miss VMworld 2012! Barcelona October 9-11 Learn about the latest virtualization technologies and strategies which can help your organization realize its’ vision for a cloud computing approach to IT. [...]

My post on vCloud Director Allocations Models back in September 2010 has always done fairly well in terms of view/visits. Lately I have been receiving some offline questions about how valid this article still is with vCloud Director 1.5 so I decided to go through the same exercise here. Instead of doing a full copy I will just copy and [...]

Although this is documented on page 59 of the excellent Evaluators Guide I figured it wouldn’t hurt to write a tiny blog post. I found myself googling for it multiple times already with no succes, so there must be more people facing that “problem”. Below you can find the passwords of the vCloud Director Appliance and the embedded database, just [...]

Bilal Hashmi wrote a nice article about HA today and in this article he asked a couple of questions. As I think the info is useful for everyone I decided to respond through a blog article instead of by commenting. Let me start by saying that in general HA should never be disabled. The later versions of vSphere have a [...]

It took us a while to figure this one out, but finally we managed to create a proper epub version of our book. Converting from Kindle to iBooks / Nook is not easy, but after using multiple tools and manually editing the book using Sigil we managed to create version which was submitted to the iBooks store and Barnes & [...]

I was just reading some of the comments posted today and Marc Sevigny, one of the vSphere HA developers, pointed out something which I did not know. I figured this is probably something that many are not aware of so I copied and pasted his comment: Another thing to check if you experience this error is to see if you have [...]