Configuring multi-NIC vMotion on vSphere 5

vSphere 5 introduced support for utilizing multiple network interfaces per single host for vMotion transfer. This is very useful feature for systems which are limited to 1 Gigabit network as migrating multiple VMs off a host can take very long time with 1 Gigabit vMotion network. Multiple NIC vMotion also allow larger workloads to [...]

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How to use custom AD group with ESXi 5 AD integration

Since vSphere 4.1 it has been possible to integrate ESXi user authentication with Active Directory. In vSphere 4.1 AD group which was use to grant root permissions on ESXi host was hard coded as “ESX Admins” so you had to change your AD group structure to match that. With vSphere 5 it is now [...]

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Setting up NetFlow on vSphere distributed switch

Many networking devices like routers and switches, implement a NetFlow protocol which is used to export information of passing network traffic to a specific NetFlow collector application for analysis and visualization. Back in days, VMware ESX 3.5 had experimental support for NetFlow but it was dropped for vSphere 4, with release of vSphere 5 [...]

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vCenter Server 5 Data Migration Tool compatibility issues

While preparing for vSphere 5: What’s New training delivery I found out that vCenter Server Data Migration Tool on vCenter Server 5 installation media is not quite compatible with vCenter Server 4.1 contrary to documentation. vCenter Server Data Migration Tools is set of scripts for exporting and importing vCenter Server configuration and it is [...]

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