Category Archives: VMWare

vCloud Director 5.1: Install, Configure & Manage

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Ross

This week I finally took a bit of time off work and sat the vCD 5.1: ICM course hosted by New Horizons. Unusually for courses I’ve taken in the past it was an Online ‘Live’ Course with the instructor running … Continue reading →

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vSphere 5.5 – Web Client Upgrade Error

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Ross

During the web client installation I received an error during the SSO registration section towards the end stating that the solution was already registered with the LookupService. A second run of the web client installation completed successfully without intervention. Sounds … Continue reading →

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vSphere 5.5 – SSO Upgrade Gotya

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Ross

I’ve just managed to up upgrade the SSO component of vSphere 5.5 in my lab after an hour of trying. The issue I kept getting was 1603 error when it got to the LookupService part of the install. The result … Continue reading →

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vShield Manager 5.1.1 Lookup Service Integration Error

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Ross

I came across an issue today that related to installation of the vShield 5.1.1 management appliance with the VMWare SSO Lookup service. If you get the folowing error: Initialization of Admin Registration Service Provider failed. Root Cause: Server returned ‘request expired’ … Continue reading →