Background We recently migrated a number vCenter installs from 5.5 on Windows, to the 6.5U1 VCSA These installs where in pairs, 1 vCenter per datacenter/MER, each their own seperate SSO install (on the same server). We did not believe at the time, that these SSO installations had any relationship with each other. The reason we
Read More »
If you are migrating a large 5.5 vCenter environment to latest and greatest sexy VCSA using the Migration-Assistant , it can be a tedious wait sometimes. Also things can go horribly wrong. Here are some logs and their locations I like to monitor during upgrade activities. (note: This only applies to the Migration Assistant for
Read More »
Ran into an interesting issue during a 5.5 to 6.5 migration. During phase 2 of the installation (final configuration of the target VCSA), this would fail with the error: "Insufficient space on the appliance partition to accommodate all the data for upgrade data option 'core'" Digging into the VCSA logbundle, various logs reported an issue
Read More »
On the eve of the new World of Warcraft patch, and GTA: San Andreas being released for the PC, of course the harddisk in my gaming rig failed. So I took the oppertunity for a little hardware upgrade. Got myself a Western Digital Raptor WD740GD. This is widely considdered as one of the fastest SATA drives
Read More »