{"id":2763,"date":"2015-04-23T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2015-04-23T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T01:58:18","slug":"vmware-vsphere-5-5-u2-workarounds-and-random-things-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/vmware-vsphere-5-5-u2-workarounds-and-random-things-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been in the field recently, deploying one of my designs for a customer as our normal resources were tied up elsewhere. I’m rusty, to be sure, and haven’t done a lot of VMware deployment work outside of a lab in the last\u00a0few years. So I thought I’d do a series of posts about things that I didn’t think of when I did the design, and the various workarounds and random fixes that I came across\u00a0to resolve the issues I encountered. I hope some of them are useful. I’ll break this up into a couple of parts, covering a few different things in each post.<\/p>\n

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Missing VMware Tools ISO<\/em><\/p>\n

The first issue I came across was being unable to load the VMware Tools\u00a0ISO when updating or installing VMware Tools on a VM. You’ll need the following VMware KB article – Unable to locate the ISO image for the VMware Tools installation (1036810)<\/a> –\u00a0to resolve the issue. I literally have no effing idea\u00a0why this is happening. I can only assume that it has something to do with the fact we’ve used SD cards in these blades, and ESXi thinks, quite rightly, that the local storage on these blades is not so persistent.<\/p>\n

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Moving vCenter’s SQL Database<\/em><\/p>\n

The Client also had made some SQL servers available as per my request prior to arriving on-site. However, The Client wanted me to build vCenter on a “temporary” SQL host and then migrate it elsewhere. I’ve found that life is not always as we planned it. If this happens to you, you’ll find the following article – Moving the VMware vCenter Server 4.x\/5.x\/6.0.x SQL database (7960893)<\/a> – to be an\u00a0invaluable.\u00a0You should also get friendly with your local SQL DBA if you’re lucky to have one at hand. Again, I could talk about how planning and preparation are key to a successful engagement, but the reality is that sometimes The Client has outside pressures applied to them that I simply can’t appreciate.<\/p>\n

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ESXi NIC Teaming Options<\/em><\/p>\n

Found yourself in a data centre? Touching a vSphere deployment? Teaming NICs in the dark of night? Not really knowing what’s going on?\u00a0Wondering what all those options meant? Wonder no more. NIC teaming in ESXi and ESX (1004088)<\/a> covers a lot of useful information, including the following summary of your options when it comes to uplinks:<\/p>\n