Plain Virtualization

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...

Have you ever wonder or encounter when asked about network ports requirements for each and individual solutions from VMware?  Whether as a presales, an architect or even a VMware support engineer. No fear!  VMware has just release a very informative network diagram show casing all the network ports and communications in between vSphere and vCloud Director components in a diagram format which makes it easier to understand than just text based. The only catch?  This is based on the current release at the time of writing and likely it would not be updated as frequent so you might have to do your own updating whenever a new release is out. At least it's better than none and going through all the installation guides or KBs would be a killer. Now you can spend more time doing other things. Here is the KB to the network diagram.  This is based on four other KBs as listed: TCP and UDP Ports required to access vCenter Server, ESXi/ESX hosts, and other n...

Today will do an installation of the web client server on the vCenter.  I will also compare the vCenter 4.1 web access with the new web client access to see the improvement that was done. Do note that the requirements for the web client access would require the following below.  I have also include the links to the offline package for Adobe Flash which many have problem locating it. Internet Explorer 7,8 Mozilla Firefox 3.5, 3.6 Adobe Flash 10.2 Offline package for Latest Adobe Flash IE: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe Firefox: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe   1 Mar 2012 Update: Alternatively, you can make use of the free vCenter vApp and used it as a web client. Michael Webster has a post on the steps.  You can install the web client on a separate Windows VM and it is able to register to multiple vCenters to enable the web client ac...

I have difficulty trying to setup my Yahoo! Mail. Most of the steps I went through succeed however the next time when I am to check my mail again, it will have authentication error. So finally I came across another post and here is the correct setting I have done with. The settings are as followed for manual setup for IMAP. INCOMING SERVER SETTINGS IMAP server - imap.mail.yahoo.com Port - 143 Security type - TLS IMA path prefix - (leave blank) OUTGOING SERVER SETTINGS SMTP Server- smtp.mail.yahoo.com Port - 587 Security type - None (check) require sign-in Hope this helps. Comments if you find there are mistakes.