Tag: vCenter

How to Fix vCenter 5.5 upgrade to 6.0 VCSServiceManager failed with error code 1603?

I decided to upgrade my home lab‘s vcenter 5.5 to 6.0 few days ago and what I thought would be a straight forward process turned into a 3 days of researching and scratching my head as to what was wrong with the upgrade and more troubling, what was I doing wrong? I knew that with… Continue reading How to Fix vCenter 5.5 upgrade to 6.0 VCSServiceManager failed with error code 1603?

Nlyte Connects Physical to Virtual With Virtualization Connector for VMware vCenter Server

VMworld 2013 US Nlyte Software, the world’s leading software company focused on the management and optimization of data centers, today introduced the latest version the Nlyte Virtualization Connector 1.5 for VMware® vCenter Server™, enabling the seamless and automated integration of its data center infrastructure management platform (DCIM) with VMware’s vCenter Server. This new connector provides… Continue reading Nlyte Connects Physical to Virtual With Virtualization Connector for VMware vCenter Server

What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5 Release

VMware vSphere® 5.5 introduces many new features and enhancements to further extend the core capabilities of the vSphere platform. This paper will discuss features and capabilities of the vSphere platform, including vSphere ESXi Hypervisor™, VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA), virtual machines, VMware vCenter Server™, storage networking and vSphere Big Data Extensions. This paper is… Continue reading What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5 Release

Rackspace Offers On-Premise Dedicated VMware vCenter Server

Rackspace Hosting® (NYSE: RAX), the open cloud company, today announced a new offering for its Rackspace® Managed Virtualization service, Dedicated VMware vCenter Server, that will provide managed support for single-tenant VMware vCenter Servers. With Dedicated VMware vCenter Server, enterprise customers can migrate existing VMware workloads out of their on-premise data center into a Rackspace data… Continue reading Rackspace Offers On-Premise Dedicated VMware vCenter Server

Update now: VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b Released

This release of VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b delivers a number of bug fixes that have been documented in the Resolved Issues section. Resolved Issues This release resolves the following issues in the vCenter Server, vSphere Client, and vSphere Web Client subject area: vCenter Server stops responding frequently with the Win32 exception: Access Violation… Continue reading Update now: VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b Released

VMware Vcenter Sysprep Error: Customization of the guest operating system ‘windows7Server64Guest’ is not supported

I ran into an issue in VMware vcenter in my lab where sysprep would not start on virtual machines (VMs) deployed from a windows server 2008 R2 template. The template along with the sysprep file were created before the lab was upgraded to 5.1. I created new sysprep config, changed VM settings and pulled my… Continue reading VMware Vcenter Sysprep Error: Customization of the guest operating system ‘windows7Server64Guest’ is not supported

How to create new VM in vSphere 5.1 Web Client

In this how-to tutorial we will look at how deploy a new virtual machine (VM) using the new VMware vSphere 5.1 Web Client. The new vSphere 5.1 web client is web/browser based full featured, intuitive and provides all the features of the installable client. This is going to be one of the first how-to guides… Continue reading How to create new VM in vSphere 5.1 Web Client