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...
If anyone has been following the release of vSphere 5.1, you know it was not exactly a smooth launch. In fact, I would dare to call it a huge debacle. To me, it seems like it was rushed out the door without having components even beta tested, like the required...
VMware has released an updated version of vCenter Server, v5.1.0b. You can find the whole readme here. According to the readme, vCenter Server 5.1.0b is not a patch release. For more information you can find the release notes here. The release notes are particularly enlightening, as you can find all...
Right on the heels of vCenter 5.1.0A release, yesterday VMware released vSphere Replication 5.1.0.1. VMware is STRONGLY urging people to upgrade "ASAP", since it fixes the problem documented in KB 2035929. You can check out their full blog post here.
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...
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...
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...
In this post I cover the basics of replacing the Log Browser and Web Client SSL certificates for vCenter 5.1 Update 1. However, as I've mentioned before, VMware has released the vCenter certificate automation tool. That tool automates the replacement of the Log Browser and web client certificates, among others....
UPDATE 4/28/2013: VMware has released the vCenter Certificate Automation tool. This is a better tool for replacing the vCenter SSL certificates (post-install), and does not require pre-staging the certificates. Since this is an official tool, and does more than my pre-staging method, I strongly urge you to follow my refreshed...
This installment of the 15 part vSphere 5.1 Installation covers some basic VUM configuration that most people will want to do. In Part 12Â we configured VUM to use trusted SSL certificates. Now that the under the covers configuration of VUM is done, we need to perform some basic GUI configuration...