The wait is finally over… I’ve noticed many people on twitter craving for it so I figured it wouldn’t harm anyone if I would provide the links to the download page. Here are the links to the direct page of ESXi and vCenter VMware ESXi 5.0 (Build 469512) VMware vCenter 5.0 (Build 456005) (vCenter Server Appliance also available as of [...]

I was playing around in my lab and figured I would give the vCenter Appliance (VCVA)  a try. I realize that today there are limitations when it comes to the vCenter Appliance and I wanted to list those to get them out in the open: No Update Manager No Linked-Mode No support for the VSA (vSphere Storage Appliance) Only support [...]

I had a lot of trouble finding the vSphere 5.0 What’s New whitepapers so I figured I would list all of them as I probably wouldn’t be the only one finding it challenging to get all of these. These are useful to quickly scan what has been introduced for a specific category. I would recommend reading these as it will [...]

I am working on a whitepaper about vCenter Server migrations and stumbled upon this great tool which is hidden away on the vCenter install media called “datamigration”. The data migration tool allows you to backup a vCenter Server configuration which is hosted by the MS SQL Express databases that is packaged with vCenter. Now this might seem like a limited [...]

I just noticed  VC Ops Enterprise had an update, version 1.0.1 was just released. Although it is just a minor release and I more or less promised myself not to do articles about minor release or upgrades I do feel it is worth checking out. VC Ops is one of those tools that can make your life a lot easier [...]

Last week there was a discussion on vCenter availability on twitter. The main outcome was that vCenter is an important component of your infrastructure and needs to be highly available. Coincidentally I received the request to repost this Survey about vCenter Availability and your thoughts on it. This is your chance to define the future around vCenter availability, take the [...]

Last week a customer asked me a question about how to respond to for instance a partial failure in their SAN environment. A while back I had a similar question from one of my other customers so I more or less knew where to look, and I actually already blogged about this over a year ago when I was showing [...]