Month: October 2012

Inject Cisco UCS Drivers into Windows Server 2012 ISO

A few days ago I blogged about injecting VMware vSphere drivers into a Windows Server 2012 image, so you can seamlessly install WS2012 inside a VM with PVSCSI and VMXNET hardware. Next up is injecting Cisco UCS drivers into Windows Server 2012, in case you need to install Windows Server...

HP Service Pack for ProLiant supports Windows Server 2012

Just released is the October 2012 HP Service Pack for ProLiant, which has full support for Windows Server 2012. Current support for Windows Server 2012 is focused on G7 and Gen8 servers. G6s and earlier will have limited to no WS2012 support. The 2012.10.0 release has these major changes: Added support for...

VMware Publishes vSphere 5.1 SSL Implementation Guides

As people quickly found out when vSphere 5.1 was released, installation and configuration of vSphere 5.1 SSL certificates was very painful and no accurate VMware documentation existed. Through a lot of work and help from some of my readers, I published a process that was pretty successful but required some workarounds and...

Cisco UCS now supports Windows Server 2012

If you want to run Windows Server 2012 on Cisco UCS blades, fear no more! As of the 2.0(4a) release they now have official support in firmware, and an updated drivers disc. Just login to Cisco TAC, get the firmware and new driver disc. As you can see in the...

VMware Releases bug fix vSphere 5.1.0A

STOP THE PRESSES! The solution to your vCenter 5.1 woes may be at your finger tips. If anyone has tried to install and configure VMware vSphere 5.1, you may have run into a plethora of difficulties. My 14 part vCenter 5.1 installation series, found here, have gotten massive page views...

VMware vSphere 5.1 ESXi Patch Released

Today VMware released an update for ESXi 5.1, and the new build number is 838463. This is a bugfix only release. You can read the full bulletin here. As always, you can download it from the patch center here.PR919634: When you perform an upgrade from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 5.1...

New Cisco UCS Firmware – 2.0(4b)

Today Cisco release a new firmware bundle for their UCS servers, 2.0(4b). No major fixes in the bundle. You can find the full Release Notes here. If you want to run Windows Server 2012, 2.0(4a) is the minimum supported version you need to be running. You can check out my blog...

NEW! HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter

For those of you using HP storage arrays (P2000, P4000, P6000, 3PAR, XP) HP has released a major update to their vCenter plug-in. You can now actively manage a wider range of HP arrays, you get full vSphere 5.1 web client capabilities, and expanded VASA support. You can check out...

Inject VMware Drivers into Windows Server 2012 ISO Image

A while back I wrote a blog article on how to inject VMware drivers (PVSCSI and VMXNET3) into a Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 image. You can check out that article here. But given those are now legacy operating systems, I'm refreshing the procedures for Windows Server 2012 (they'd...

Download Links for HP ESXi Custom ISO Images

Today while trying to download the latest HP customized VMware ESXi Installation I found a download page that I previously wasn't aware of. It's a one stop shop for HP ESXi 4.x, 5.0 and 5.1 customized ISO images. The 5.x links point directly to VMware download locations, so you don't have...

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