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Happy New Year to You All!

Hoping to have an exciting year with VMware....

ESXi 5.0 Update 2 has been released

I have been busy downloading new updates of vSphere 5.0. Updates include for ESXi 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0.

VMware has announced officially that vCenter 5.0 Update 2 is able to run on Windows Server 2012.

Read the release notes of VMware below. Check for the resolved issues section the number of issues that VMware has addressed with this release.

http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsp_esxi50_u2_rel_notes.html

I dont know if its just me but I am having trouble to download the iso's. Whenever I have been trying to download the vSphere 5.0 update 2 it keeps redirecting me to vSphere 5.1.

Along with this update HP has released it's custom ESXi ISO in the below URL.

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=HP-ESXI-5.0.0-U2-20DEC2012&productId=229

Host resource counter on summary page not visible

On a production at one of customer sites showed blank on host resources,

The host was already added to the cluster...

To resolve the issue,

• Enabled the SSH service on the host.
• Connected through a putty session.
• Restarted the management services using "services.sh restart" command.

Host automatically got disconnected. Connected the host back again and voila! there it was with all the counters visible.

OVM to VMware migration project lessons learnt

I am involved in an ongoing migration of OVM 2.1.5 to VMware vSphere 5 project.

It involved having a mediate server beefed up with enough memory and storage to host all the vm's.

Most of these vm's were in production environment, and the necessary network settings had to be created on the VMware virtual infrastructure.

Mediate server mediated to test the vm's in their own VLAN's and also used Starwind's free iSCSI software which was an awesome find for us to quickly migrate the vm's from mediate server to the blade servers.

On my next post I will try and do a tutorial on how to install an Starwind iSCSI software to setup a Software  iSCSI storage.

Leave comments if you want a detailed tutorial on this.

VMware vCenter is capable of managing 3rd party hypervisors.

VMware announced its capabiltiy of managing third party hypevisors. For now Hyper-V on Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 is supported.

The relevant software can be obtained from the following link, (Scroll to the very bottom of the page.)
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VCL-VSP510-VC-510A-EN&productId=285&rPId=3144


Before installing, ensure that these prerequisites are met:

• You have an account with administrator privileges on the vCenter Server system.
• The Windows Remote Management service is running and configured on the vCenter Server machine and on the machine where you install the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager server.
• Your user account has sufficient rights to install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package. The vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager installer initiates the installation of the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package.
• (If you want to use a custom certificate for vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager) You have all the necessary certification authorities in the Trusted Root Certification Authority on the system where you want to install the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager server.

Following KBTV videos show how the vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager Server and vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager Client is installed.

Interoperability and Software Requirements

Supported Hypervisors

• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

http://www.vmware.com/support/mhm/doc/vcenter-multi-hypervisor-manager-10-release-notes.html#interop