Month: February 2013

New VMware Cisco UCS Drivers for vSphere 5.x

new VMware Cisco UCS Drivers for vSphere 5.x are now out for the fnic and enic drivers. The fnic and enic drivers are for the Cisco VIC cards, which come in a few different flavors. These are the most common FCoE cards used in the UCS blades. They are now at...

VMware Posts new vCenter SSO KB Article

For those of you trying to install and maintain vSphere 5.1, you probably will run into some vCenter SSO issues at one point or another. One of the big problems with SSO not using the very friendly Microsoft ODBC connector, is post-install reconfiguration of database parameters. The JDBC database interface...

Voting for Top Virtualization Blogs in Full Swing

For a few years now vSphere-land.com has been holding a poll for voting for the top virtualization blogs. Of course rock stars like Duncan and Frank get very high rankings, as they should. The sheer number of Virtualization blogs out there is really amazing. This year my blog made it...

February 2013 HP Service Pack for ProLiant released

For those of you with HP ProLiant servers in your environment, you know that on a quarterly basis HP releases a new "HP Service Pack for ProLiant", which is a combo ISO of firmware, drivers, and tools for your ProLiant rackmount and blade servers. It's very important to keep firmware...

vCenter 5.1 Installation: Part 15 (ESXi SSL certificate)

Welcome to a post which will let you easily update your VMware ESXi host SSL certificates. Last year when I was writing my 15-part vSphere 5.1 installation and configuration series I didn't include instructions on how to replace the ESXi SSL certificate. That process hasn't changed for ages, so I put it...

VMware Whitepaper on CPU Scheduling Performance

In a virtual environment CPU scheduling is extremely important. You very likely will have more vCPUs than pCores, so the hypervisor has to play some "tricks" to fairly schedule VMs among the finite hardware resources. With each version of vSphere VMware has tuned and optimized CPU scheduler performance. VMware design goals...