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VMware View 5.1.x Now Compatible with vSphere 5.1!

By Josh Townsend · 3 Comments · (Updated: June 30, 2013)

I wrote an article a couple of weeks ago about the incompatibility of VMware View 5.1 and vSphere 5.1, but mentioned a forthcoming patch based on an update to VMware knowledge base article 2035268 (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2035268) that I saw through a RSS subscription to the article.  Good news as of last night - that patch is now available for download, making vSphere 5.1 compatible with View 5.1.  I am a bit surprised that the patch, ESXi510-201210401-BG, applies to ESXi 5.1 instead of View 5.1.  I would expect that the older View 5.1 (released in May 2012) would need to be patched to work … [Read more...]

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VMware View 5.1 Not Compatible with vSphere 5.1

By Josh Townsend · 4 Comments · (Updated: June 30, 2013)

Update: 10/26/2012 - a patch has been released to correct compatibility between View 5.1 and vSphere ESXi 5.1.  See here for more: http://vmtoday.com/2012/10/vmware-view-5-1-x-now-compatible-with-vsphere-5-1/ VMware released vSphere 5.1 shortly after VMworld 2012.  The new release of vSphere includes features that will be of great benefit to VMware View virtual desktop infrastructures such as the new Space Efficient virtual disk (.vmdk) format and a new virtual machine format (hardware version 9) that enhances virtual shared graphics acceleration.  However, the current version of VMware … [Read more...]

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VMworld Europe News and Announcements

By Josh Townsend · Leave a Comment · (Updated: September 6, 2013)

I wanted to let you all know about some announcements that have come out at VMworld Europe over the past couple days.  These announcements help round out some of the new products and features announced at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco.  These new and updated features are a big deal for customers who want to take a wholistic approach to deploying and managing a hybrid cloud across different service providers.  If you're thinking about upgrading your vSphere license to a vCloud Suite license (you have until December 15th to claim the free upgrade to the vCloud Suite Standard Edition, along with … [Read more...]

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Webcast: VMworld 2012 Recap: What’s New from VMware

By Josh Townsend · 1 Comment · (Updated: June 30, 2013)

Update: If you missed the webcast, you can watch the recorded session playback here: https://clearpathevents.webex.com/clearpathevents/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=5836487&rKey=29a86bf8d53cdfc8 The presentation is available on Sliderocket if you want to skip through the presentation quickly without listening to my goofy voice: Webcast: VMworld 2012 Recap: What's New from VMware Tuesday, October 2, 10-11 am Eastern In keeping current with the latest news from VMware, Clearpath's team followed all of the breaking developments at VMworld 2012 to observe and report on all the … [Read more...]

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Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service on VMware vCenter Virtual Appliance

By Josh Townsend · Leave a Comment · (Updated: June 30, 2013)

I've been rebuilding my home VMware lab environment recently.  I decided to jump right into vSphere 5.1 with the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance instead of the traditional Windows SQL combo.  Deploying a vApp is much faster and cheaper from a licensing perspective than a full-blown Windows and SQL setup.  After I imported the vCenter Virtual Appliance .OVA,  I logged into the administrative web interface of the appliance (https://vcenterIP:5480) and started to make a few configuration changes.  First up were assigning a hostname, setting the correct time zone, and setting a static IP … [Read more...]

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VMware Tools Upgrade Execution Aborted

By Josh Townsend · Leave a Comment · (Updated: June 30, 2013)

I was doing a vSphere 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade in my home lab tonight and ran into a small issue with upgrading VMware Tools on a Linux VM.   During the install I received an error message 'Unable to create symlink "/etc/cups/ppd/VMware_Virtual_Printer.ppd" pointing to file "/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/thinprint.ppd".  Execution Aborted.' It seemed that CUPS was already present on the server I was upgrading - CUPS is an open source software for modular printing in Unix-like systems.  VMware tools leverages CUPS for ThinPrint / Virtual Printers in Linux systems.  Because the /etc/cups … [Read more...]

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ESXi 5 Won’t Boot From USB

By Josh Townsend · 21 Comments · (Updated: June 29, 2013)

I've been upgrading my home VMware lab to vSphere 5.1 today and ran into an issue that I thought I would share.  I had previously written about my home lab environment - I run HP xw8600 workstations, and because I'm using SATA disks behind a SAS controller they are being seen as 'remote' disks to the ESXi installer.  This means that I need another type of disk that will be seen as a 'local' disk so ESXi can create a scratch partition.  A USB thumb drive was the answer, but not without issues. When I installed ESXi 5.0 on the thumb drive, the install completed without problem, but after the … [Read more...]

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vSphere 5.1 Announcement, Features, and Specifications

By Josh Townsend · Leave a Comment

Today at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco, VMware announced the new version of their flagship product vSphere 5.1.  Version 5.1 builds on the success of vSphere 5, enabling more flexibility, scalability, and automation for running your private cloud of storage, network and compute resources.  There's lots of coverage of vSphere 5.1 by the tech media, bloggers, and VMware, so I won't cover all of the nitty gritty details, but I do want to highlight several that are of interest.  I'm saving some of the features for more in-depth posts, so stay tuned for more! vSphere vMotion no longer requires … [Read more...]

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