In the first part of this post, I detailed the notes that I took while upgrading my VMware View 5.0.1 environment to 5.1. I also mentioned some of the preparations that one should make before carrying out the upgrade. In this post, I'll write about the rest of the upgrade process that I followed and also mention [...]
If you are interested in VMware View, you might have noticed that version 5.1 came out recently. You might also know that it contains some eagerly awaited enhancements like View Storage Accelerator, Improved Persona Management options and ability to have a standalone View Composer machine, amongst other things. For those reasons, I thought I should [...]
Configuration of VRM Server (vSphere Replication Management Server) is one of the steps that one has to perform while installing SRM (Site Recovery Manager) 5.0. A prerequisite for it is to have a compatible database available and the VRMS appliance deployed in advance. However, when going through the configuration, one could sometimes see an error message while [...]
As I've been asked about this several times, I thought I should post something about it as this doesn't seem to be common knowledge: VMware Tools can be installed on Windows 2008 (R2) Server Core. A common misconception is that since Server Core doesn't have a GUI (Graphical User Interface), it can't run the VMware [...]