Tag: vSphere 5.5

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 13: Install Inventory Svc

The vCenter inventory service has two primary purposes in life. First, it's a cache of objects which the web client accesses. This cache enables the offloading of retrieving objects from the vCenter core service (vpxd). This can also lessen the load on your back-end database if the vCenter service isn't...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 4: ESXi 5.5 Upgrade

In this installment of the vSphere 5.5 installation how-to series we cover upgrading ESXi hosts, VMs, and VMFS. As stated in my vCenter 5.5 upgrade post, I'm not going to do a step-by-step screenshot filled posts for upgrades. Why? Too many different deployment types for that to be widely useful. But you do need...

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 1: Introduction

At VMworld 2013 in San Francisco VMware unveiled vSphere 5.5, the successor to vSphere 5.1. Customers are now chomping at the bit for vSphere 5.5 upgrade information. Of great anticipation was what VMware did to the vSphere 5.1 SSO service to address common complaints. If you've been living under a rock,...

SQL 2012 Failover Cluster Pt. 2: VM Deployment

SQL 2012 Failover Cluster Pt. 2: VM Deployment

First up in this series is deploying your two Windows Server 2012 VMs, which will be the SQL 2012 failover cluster nodes. I have a standard VM template that is built in a nearly fully automated manner with Microsoft MDT 2012 Update 1. If you are still making your VM...