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Upgrading vCenter Appliance 5.5 to 6.0 – Migration failed error

By David Hill on March 25, 2015 in General

Today working in our vCloud Air Technical Marketing Lab I was upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.5 to 6.0 and I came across an interesting issue. Totally by my own creation, but interesting none the less. First of all, I want to thank @anthonyspiteri for his excellent article showing the steps on how to upgrade your vCenter Server Appliance. Read it here The major difference with this upgrade is that you don’t just update the exisiting vCenter Appliance like in previous versions. The upgrade wizard actually deploys a whole new appliance and migrates all the data from the previous version. Its pretty cool and when you configure it correctly, works very well. Upgrading vCenter Appliance 5.5 to 6.0 The error I experienced was about half way through the migration, when it failed with the error “Migration Failed”. It also failed to download the support bundle logs too. Turns […]

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vSphere Replication Unable to obtain SSL certificate – Bad Server Response

By David Hill on March 24, 2015 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air, VMware Posts

Working on upgrading our vCloud Air TMM lab today, I came across an interesting error that had me baffled for quite some time. I was upgrading the vSphere Replication Appliance from version 5.8 to version 6.0 and everything went smoothly. After logging out and clearing the cache for the web browser (as documented here), I came across a new field that needs to be configured for the vSphere Replication Appliance to work. Its the LookupService Address. This didn’t exist in the previous version, but easy I thought. Lets enter the vCenter server FQDN and away we go. vSphere Replication Unable to obtain SSL certificate Then I received the error: Unable to obtain SSL certificate: Bad server response; is a LookupService listening on the given address? If you perform a quick google, you are reffered to this KB article, but DNS wasn’t the problem, I could ping both the long FQDN […]

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Netherlands VMUG Review 2015

By David Hill on March 20, 2015 in Community, VMUG

I got the opportunity to attend the Netherlands VMUG today. This is the first time I have attended the Netherlands VMUG so I was looking forward to it. I have heard good things about the Netherlands VMUG from my colleagues. Lets start with the attendance. The Netherlands VMUG has the opportunity to become the largest VMUG in the globe. Currently the record is held by Indianapolis at 935 attendees. The Netherlands VMUG has 975 registered attendees, so it will be good too see if this is achieved at the end of the day. The first session was the keynote with @JoeBaguley. Joe is an excellent presenter and always impresses when presenting sessions. This session had it all, humor, information, strategy and technology. Joe talked about the direction of where IT is going. His point is that IT is not all about infrastructure, but is about the App and Data. IT […]

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Hey, where has my Subscription Cloud gone?

By David Hill on January 21, 2015 in vCloud Air

I received an email today asking “Hey Dave, where has my Subscription Cloud gone?”. I responded with Let me Google that for you… Actually I didn’t because I knew why they were asking. As of yesterday 20th January, VMware announced its new vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud On-Demand offering. Read here all the details. This has brought with it a completely new interface for logging into your VMware vCloud Air Subscription based clouds. Its actually really straight forward to access all your subscription based clouds. The first thing you notice is that vchs.vmware.com now redirects to vca.vmware.com, presenting you with a different login screen Lets login and see what we find. In the old days, once we logged in, we would see a list of regions and our clouds underneath these regions. However with the release of VPC On-Demand we have the ability to add different services to our clouds. […]

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Enhanced vCloud Air Disaster Recovery features coming soon

By David Hill on January 21, 2015 in vCloud Air

Lots to talk about over at VMware’s Cloud Services Business Unit. Yesterday VMware made the Virtual Private Cloud On-Demand Generally Available which is the new pay as you go credit card offering. They also announced enhanced Disaster Recovery features that will be released in the coming months. I think this announcement went a little unheard due to the big splash On-Demand made. This release is of particular importance to me, as it is the one I am concentrating all my time and effort developing demo’s, video’s, tutorials, use cases and presentations on, so excuse me for being a little excited lol. I will also be talking about this more in-depth at the London VMUG on 22nd January. The three key features for the next release of vCloud Air Disaster Recovery are: Native Fail back Native fail back allows you to replicate your virtual machines back to your on premises datacenter, […]

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