Some heads up for vCenter 4

First of all, apologies for not posting for a very long time. I’ve been busy setting up my Cloud Computing service. I’ll write about that some other time.

For now, I have some recent experiences to share with vCenter:

• vCenter 4.0 works on Windows 2008 R2 but the vSphere client does not unless a workaround is used
• If you plan on using the Cisco Nexus 1000V as part of your vSphere Enterprise Plus package, vCenter must be able to run on port 80 – this means, no IIS on the vCenter box.
• If upgrading from VirtualCenter 2.5.x and moving servers, make sure to keep a backup of the SSL certs in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\SSL – if they are not copied over the ones newly installed by the vCenter installer, the vCenter Hardware Status and the vCenter Service Status will fail to enable.
• If installing on an x64 Windows box, you still need a 32-bit connection via ODBC to your SQL DB. Start, Run, type odbcad32.exe and enter your details

Cheers,

Leo