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Converting VMware Horizon Application Manager OVA’s for Use in VMware Fusion
Both the Horizon Connector Virtual Appliance and the Horizon Service Virtual Appliance come packaged as OVA’s. Of which you know will not work natively within VMware Fusion. (Come on VMware… fix this!) So first, you must convert the OVA’s to VMX files, to do this; you need VMware’s OVFTOOL Once installed, its just a couple of commands […]
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Installing vCenter 5.1 problems, lots of them!
Figured I’d upgrade my lab vCenter from 4.1 to 5.1 today.. talk about more than I expected! First, I had to go and install the vCenter SSO functionality before I could even upgrade the vCenter inventory service. Second, I had to upgrade the vCenter inventory service. Third, I had to install the vCenter Web Client […]
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Installing vCenter Operations Manager 5.3 – A Step By Step Guide
First, download the Free Trial or if your licensed for the full version here! *Note – Roughly 350GB disk space will be required! Then we must configure a couple of pre-requisites required for the installation and successfull deployment of vCenter Operations Manager 5.3. Open your vSphere client, clock on home > networking, then click on […]
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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Soon to Arrive
Next Tuesday I’ll be traveling to Cincinnati for the long awaited demo of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform! From the start, it sounds extremely similar to the IBM PureFlex deployment that I have several articles written about already. Expect to see some upcoming blog posts!
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