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This is my first time doing the client setup. Let's dive right in. Refer to the this installation guide for client setup. Please note that I am documenting based on Ubuntu 18.04. If you are using RHEL or CentOS, your commands may differ. Also some commands are different from the installation guide and these are the catchas I am showing here. Overview for vSphere Bitfusion Client Download the vSphere Bitfusion Client where version is similar to the vSphere Bitfusion Server Check that the vSphere Bitfusion Plugin is workin in the vSphere Client VMware Tool is installed and you are able to see the four power functions in the VM edit setting Make sure vmnic is on VMNET3 power on the VM Install the .deb package, your client will need to be connected to internet as you will need to install some software dependencies before installing the agent Query the package to find out the dependencies > sudo dpkp-deb -I bitfusionxxxx.deb install all the listed dependencies > sudo apt -y ins...

Recently, I was asked to setup vSphere Bitfusion on a set of VxRAIL servers. This was running on vSphere 7.0. Hit into some issues and manage to resolve it. I followed the video demo from this blog but realize there are some things different from the official installation guide . You can also refer to the summary for the system requirement for the vSphere Bitfusion Server. This article is to bring you to all the resources you will need and not hit into such problems that I did. Before we start, the requirement for vSphere Bitfusion is to have vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing and vSphere Bitfusion Add-on per CPU/Processor licenses. Here is a video of the installation. Overview for vSphere Bitfusion Server Download the vSphere Bitfusion binary from VMware Prepare your host to make sure the GPU are added in PCI Passthrough as stated here Import vSphere Bitfusion OVA and deploy into vCenter with the follow information: vCenter login credential If not using DHCP: IP address, subnet mask...

Not going in-depth of new features but some overview so that everyone gets a quick glimpse and here is the link to VMware Blogs . Will update this article (if any) with links when it becomes available. vSphere 7.0 Overview . vCenter Server Simplified SSO Topology vCenter Server upgrade for customers with external PSC will enjoy the consolidated topology through this upgrade. embedded PSC will be the only topology moving forward. External PSC topology will be deprecated. vCenter Server Profiles ( link ) Just like how Host Profiles works. You can now compare and export the settings in JSON format as a backup or apply them to a new vCenter via REST API vCenter Multi-Homing ( link ) up to 4 vNIC where vNIC 1 is reserved for vCHA Maximum limit increased refer to  configmax.vmware.com Content Library There is a new view which you can enable. To help in managing templates, there is Check In/Out function to control versioning and revert to the previous version C...

The start of February also mark the great launch today by VMware.  Another milestone achieve with more to look forward to which will change the way things will run in an infrastructure. Today has been the long awaiting launch of vSphere 6.0 (which many thought was during vSphere 5.5 but finally it made it), there are also some changes to some add-on products changes as well as bundle update. The General Availability (GA) for vSphere will be in Mar 2015.  The training courses are found here . What's New vCloud Suite will be updates with vSphere 6.0 and vCloud Director and vCloud Network & Security will be deprecated as announced last year and no longer seen in this bundle.  This also get updated with the new vRealize Operations (vROps) Suite to 6. vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM) will be updated to 6.0 which include vSphere 6.0 and vRealize Operations (vROps) 6.0.  Finally those on vSOM 5.5 have been asking for vROps 6.0 has been granted t...

Constantly even myself, we found difficult to setup the vSphere web client.  Often I always forgot what to do again and again from vSphere 5.0, 5.1 and now 5.5.  I decide to just document this down so that the web client can work as a breeze.   The first thing after setting up your vCenter 5.5, you would need to: Log into the web client using the SSO administrator: Change the password for the SSO administrator account (administrator@vsphere.local) Change the password expiry to from the default 90 days to your requirement (Note: '0' will not work although the message state so when you click on the textbox, instead do a 9999 if you require no expiry. Refer to KB ) Add your domain into the Identity Sources under Administration>Single-Sign-On>Configuration Set it to Default Domain by clicking on the Global Icon Add your accounts or groups to be SSO administrator going to Administrators under Groups in Administration>Single-Sign-On>Users and Gr...

It has been sometime that I last did any installation and decide to rebuild my home lab.  I will skip the installation or upgrade of ESX server as this is pretty straight forward either using VMware vCenter Update Manager or via booting up from CD. I will document the vCenter components as well as the databases requirements.  The SQL query are all tested during my installation.  I have record a simple video to show that the SQL query are error free and allows vCenter to install without any errors. I might miss out some stuff here since I am not a DB guy or a SQL expert so to speak. vCenter 64bit DSN after user and rights assigned Check out support Database from here Adobe Flash required for machine access web client  Similarly to what I have documented year before on vCenter 5.1 here , the SQL scripts did not change other than the requirements of SSO database is no longer required. Extracted from vCenter installation guide which can be found in t...