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vCloud Director 5.1: Install, Configure & Manage
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 the course from the US (Nebraska). The course ran from 2pm-10pm BST which meant I … Continue reading
vSphere 5.5 – Web Client Upgrade Error
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 like a buggy installation!
vSphere 5.5 – SSO Upgrade Gotya
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 of the error was a rollback. “Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: vCenter Single … Continue reading
vShield Manager 5.1.1 Lookup Service Integration Error
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’ less than 0 seconds after request was issued, but it shouldn’t have expired for at … Continue reading
47 GHz Total CPU 
180 GB Total RAM 
2,726 GB Total Disk
2 Host(s)
7 RPs
39 VMs
425 vMotions
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6 Physical NICs
10 Virtual PGs
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