When deploying vCenter Server 6.5 recently, I stumbled upon an issue that I was able to reproduce for the versions 6.5c and 6.5d. When deploying the appliance using the vCSA UI installer, the second stage always crashed with an error like this:

1Unable to connect to vCenter Single Sign-On: Failed to connect to SSO; …

For integration in Microsoft environments, VMware offers several Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) connectors in vCenter Server:

• native integration: vCenter Server is managed as computer object in Active Directory
• LDAP broker for authentification in Single-Sign-On (SSO)

When installing the last …

Recently one of my vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.5 installations was unable to proceed logins anymore. After having a look at the storage consumption I saw that two partitions were filled up:

1# df -h /storage/{core,db}
2Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
3/dev/sdb1        20G   20G     0 100% …

Some of you might have recognized that it has been surprisingly quiet on my blog in the last couple of weeks. The reason for this was not that I have not been keen for blogging - rather I was working on something bigger that I'd love to present you today. 🙂

It is nothing less than a book about VMware vSphere named …

This week VMware introduced plenty of new, long-awaited product versions during an online event. I also joined this event to see the further development that was taking place since VMworld 2014.

vSphere 6

The biggest highlight was vSphere 6 - in accordance with VMware this is the "biggest release ever". With …

When running a virtualized vCenter server it is very important to have a working backup. If the vCenter server crashes the virtual landscape cannot be managed or monitored.

Configuring backup is very easy when running VMware vCenter Server on a conventional Microsoft Windows servers because it is a fully-features …

VMware published a very useful tiny helper named vSphere Mobile Watchlist. The smartphone application is designed to be used for monitoring and controlling running virtual machines.

To avoid beeing overwhelmed by a endless list of virtual machines (of course this depends on the size of your virtual environment) the …

Recently I discovered the following hint in the vCenter service state overview:

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