In this post I have created a general-purpose Best Practices guideline for VMware vSphere, including references. I base these Best Practices recommendations on my personal, and VMsources collective experience, in dealing with hundreds (if not thousands, at this point) of unique client environments over the last decade. My intent is to help VMware users of
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I was doing an in-place upgrade of a vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 6 (Windows), when I encountered an unusual error, that didn’t seem to have a relevant KB article or much other information. This was most definitely NOT a database incompatibility, as was indicated by the second error. It turns out that the solution is
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Integrating VMware vCenter Server with Microsoft Active Directory has always been a requirement for enterprise deployments of VMware vSphere. Before SSO, In VMware vCenter 5.0 and prior, the Windows Server (VM or physical) where vCenter was installed was required to be a member-server of an Active Directory domain. In those days all Administrators of the
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Over the years, a number of common misconceptions about infrastructure Virtualization have taken hold and even gained widespread acceptance. I hope to factually debunk some of these myths, and possibly discover more myths in the process!