This post is intended to cover the VCP6-CMA objective around installing and upgrading the vRealize components. When deploying vRA its recommended to deploy onto a vSphere dedicated management cluster, with…
In this post I will cover how to deploy the Cisco n1000v switch on vSphere 5.5 – including the initial deployment of the switch appliance, some initial configuration, followed by…
This post follows on from my recent posts on configuring highly available Platform Services Controllers. By the end of my previous post on this, I had deployed two platform services…
I wanted to have a look at the latest build of Citrix XenServer – so thought I’d do a post on the upgrade process. I’m currently running XenServer 6.0.2, and…
One of the big changes with the introduction of vSphere 6 is the Platform Services Controller. You can find out more about the PSC here. The PSC can be installed on…
As stated here, a LUN NAA (Network Address Authority) number is a globally unique identifier for a LUN. The NAA number can be used to determine a LUN’s serial number…
This follows on from my recent post on installing vRealize operations manager 6. In that post I went through the initial installation tasks following the deployment of the vRealize Operations…
This article picks up from where I left off in my previous post on deploying the vRealize Operations Manager 6 appliance. With the appliance deployed, we can begin the configuration.…
This is a quick post to cover the deployment of vRealize Operations Manager 6 appliance. There are a number of changes introduced in this version, so I wanted to take…
In my previous Site Recovery Manager 6 post, I went through running a test failover. Picking up from that one, this will be a quick post looking at going through…