So I am in the process of doing some vSphere 6 testing and needed to test a redeployment of one of my VCSA’s. The problem is when I went to redeploy it I got the following error.

Decoding the error, I pretty much figured that the object already existed in the SSO database and I needed to delete the existing object. Here is how you do that.

• Log in as root to the appliance shell of the Platform Services Controller appliance with which the vCenter Server Appliance is registered.
• To enable the Bash shell, run the shell.set –enabled true command.
  • Run the shell command to start the …

With all this talk about VMware vs KVM I figured that I would attempt to load a base install of KVM to see what it was all about.

Here is a quick vagrant runbook that will quickly get a 3 linux servers deployed and installed with KVM to play with.

There are 3 nodes..MGMT01,KVM01 and KVM02. I use MGMT01 VMM to manage KVM01 and KVM02.

The code can be found here.

I wanted to share this handy script i created when you have a need to build out a new vCenter.

This script can be extremely handy as it will take care of creating the datacenter, cluster, adding hosts, creating datastores and then applying the appropriate host profile. It is all done via CSV files so it is extremely customizable.

Files to modify to customize your configuration

• createdatacenter.csv - Contains the name of the datacenter to create.
• createcluster.csv - Contains the name of the cluster to create and the datacenter to put it in.
• createhosts.csv - Contains the Name of the host and …

ESXi 5.5 Update 3a and its associated patch have been released. If you have been following KB2133118 in regards to the the Snapshot Consolidation causing Virtual Machines to crash a fix is now available.

If you are currently running ESXi 5.5 U3 you can use update manager to install the patch.

If you are looking to install ESXi 5.5 U3 from scratch or update from a previous version you should make sure you update to 5.5 U3a which includes the snapshot consolidation patch.

ESXi 6.0 Update 1a has been released. If you have been following KB2124669 in regards to the the NETDEV WATCHDOG issue causing an ESXi host to hang. The update is now available.

If you are currently running ESXi 6.0/6.0U1 you can use update manager to install the update.

If you are looking to install ESXi 6.0 U1 from scratch or update from a previous version you should make sure you update to use the latest ISO.

So I am in the process of rolling out a new 2012R2 DHCP Server Cluster, and I thought i would share my scripts with the community.

I have also rolled it into a Vagrant package so you can easily test it on your own, and execute the scripts by themselves against your environment to deploy.

Here is a link to the GitHub repository containing all the code.

The code is also fairly simple, it pulls in data from a few .CSV files and deploy’s the servers, installs the roles, creates the scopes, creates MAC Address allow policies and then creates a couple reservations.

I am currently troubleshooting some issues with the Horizon event database having some performance issues. Working with support they pointed me to KB2094580.

By Default the view event database is not indexed. I was curious as to way I always had issues pulling up events in the Horizon View Administrative interface, but as soon as I followed the steps, it was almost immediate now, where i use to have to wait an extremely long time.

Horizon 6.2 is now available and Linux support has improved. Previously it was only supported on a limited set of older operating systems.

Originally when we deployed we had deployed Ubuntu 12.04, however now the newer kernel 14.04 is supported so I will show you how to upgrade your desktop to the latest version and now use the new agent as well.

If you followed my [previous]({{ site.url }}/horizon%20view/horizon-view-block-linux-vdi-console-access/) post to disable Console access. Go ahead and shutdown the desktop and change it back to 1 to enable console, or you can do this all via SSH as …

vRealize Operations 6.1 is now available, I thought I would put a quick guide together as I go through the upgrade process. This guide will show how to upgrade the Horizon Adapter for vROPS.

To upgrade from vRealize Operations Horizon Adapter to the most recent version, follow these steps.

Download the neccessary file(s) needed. In my case I needed the vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent and the vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter.

vRealize Operations 6.1 is now available, I thought I would put a quick guide together as I go through the upgrade process.

To upgrade from vRealize Operations Manager to the most recent version, follow these steps.

Download the PAK file(s) needed based on the type of cluster.

• vApp clusters
  • The vApp cluster requires the deployment of the OS upgrade and the product upgrade .pak files.
    • For an OS upgrade, the file is: vRealize_Operations_Manager-VA-OS-xxx.pak
    • For the product upgrade of vApp clusters, the file is: vRealize_Operations_Manager-VA-xxx.pak
• vApp heterogeneous clusters
  • The vApp …