VMworld 2011 Las Vegas was my first ever VMworld, and hopefully it will be one of many! Before I left, I got some advice from a co-worker who was an alumni as well as reading various articles including David Marshall’s 10 tips for VMworld 2011 newbies.
Now that I’m been there and back and with VMworld Copenhagen just around the corner, I figured it would be a good time to recap David’s rules as I thought they were a pretty good blue print for first timers.
We’ve recently been setting up vCloud 1.5 in the office and so far we like what we’ve been seeing. During the install, we did run into a bit of an issue when we set the API urls. On our first attempt we didn’t set them and had issues uploading media. You’d think that the two would be unrelated. You’d first think that you had a permissions issue on the file system somewhere right? Wrong-o-bucko! What you need to do is set the API url in Administration > Public Addresses. Uploading media apparently uses it.
Hardware issues have forced a lack of blog updates this week. look for a recap next week when I have a chance to decompress.
Ah yeah, its finally here! Next week is the infamous VMworld conference in Las Vegas. Couldn’t come at a better time as we’re knee deep in vCloud at work and very excited to get our hands on the new bits coming out of VMware. Looking forward to a great conference and hopefully I’ll have some time to post some content of things we’re seeing. If not a blog post, definitely some tweets (@usrlocal for those that don’t follow me).
A few months back I had a little bit of trouble with an upgrade in our corporate VMware cluster that I thought I would share. The details of this upgrade was to add a new host to the mix and bring everything up to vSphere 4.1 update 1. It seemed pretty straight forward at the time but there were a few unexpected issues that sucked up more time than expected.