Today I was installing a new vCenter 5.5 server for a customer, on a freshly installed Windows Server 2012 VM, which would also be hosting the Micrsoft SQL database locally.

I had already joined the server to the domain and setup Micrsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1, and created the vCenter Database, and an accompanying System DSN, so I was ready to do the vCenter installation.

I chose to install using the Simple Install method, because… well this was a simple installation.

SSO, vSphere Web Client and Inventory Service all installed with any issues.

But during the vCenter Server installation, I got a error... Continue reading

I arrived in Barcelona sunday night with my colleagues, Heino Skov and Brian Markussen, and couple of customers... Continue reading

I have used BackWPup in the past to do backup of this “WordPress” based website, but recently I encountered some problems.

In my original BackWPup setup there was a simple BackWPup-job that just created a ZIP-archive of everything WordPress related at my webhost, One.com, and then sent that ZIP-archive to my Dropbox.com account for offsite storing.

But recently I started receiving error-emails, that the backup did not finish correctly... Continue reading

I will focus on using the new vSphere Web Client, instead of the classic Windows-based vSphere Client. The following actions is also fully possible to do in the classic Windows-based vSphere Client... Continue reading

The next thing is to convert our Sparseimage to VMDK format. For during this I will be using to Command Line utilities that are installed as part of VMware Fusion.

I would like to thank, a former colleague of mine, Alan Gordon, who is Chief Technology Officer at Humac Group for writing a article at Krypted.com on how to do this... Continue reading

First we need to enable SSH on a ESXi.

Login to your vCenter through vSphere Web Client and navigate to ‘vCenter -> Host and Clusters’ and choose a ESXi host.

Under the ‘Manage’ tab, select the ‘Settings’ sub-tab.

In list on the left, select ‘Security Profile’, and scroll down to the section named ‘Services’ and click ‘Edit’... Continue reading

The generated DMG image in the ‘Masters’ folder is not a copy of the original System DMG image from the ‘Library’ folder with a applied configuration.

To be precise it is a Read-Only DMG, with a ‘Apple Partition Map’ partition map scheme and it has been resized so that there is only around 100 MB of free space available in it... Continue reading

After the image is created, go to the Main Menu of SIC, and select ‘5) System Setup’, and you will get a menu called ‘Configure System’ as shown below in the screenshot... Continue reading

Start by downloading the newest version of System Image Creator (SIC) from GitHub https://github.com/mondada/SIC/archive/master.zip.

Unzip the archive, and you should have one (or more) BASH scripts.

Open Terminal.app, located in /Applications/Utilities/, and type ‘sudo’ and then a space. Now drag in the downloaded BASH script, in my case called ‘SIC_1.5.sh’... Continue reading

The goal of this series of blog posts is to produce a never booted installation of OS X Mountain Lion, in a VMDK, which can be used as a template in VMware vSphere vCenter 5.1.

The reason for doing this, is that when a OS X installation is done the normal way, using the Installation GUI, then on the first boot of the newly installed machine there is created a bunch of machine specific files and items... Continue reading