Configuring Netapp SRA Array Manager – VMware site recovery manager 5 1. First up we’ll need to be inside VMware Site Recovery Manager 5. Open up your vCenter Server and browse to Solutions and Applications – Site Recovery – your vCenter Server. Click on Array Manager on the right hand side. Right click Primary Site Lab and select Add Array Manager. 2. Type in a display name and for SRA Type...

Pairing Sites within VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 1. Open up your vCenter Server and browse to Solutions and Applications – Site Recovery – your vCenter Server. Click on Sites on the left hand side if it’s not already selected. 2. In the right hand side pane under 1. Connect the Sites, click Configure Connection. Enter in your secondary vCenter Server address. Default port is 80, change it...

Installing Netapp SRA within VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 1. Double click on the Netapp SRA installation file and the wizard will begin. Click Next. 2. Accept the End-User License Agreement and click Next. 3. Enter in a user name and organization name. Select who you want to install this application for and click Next. 4. I will install the complete list of features and click Nex...

Installing VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 1. Once you have downloaded VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 from the VMware Website, right click on the installation file and select Run as administrator. 2. Select your language and click Ok. 3. The VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 installation wizard begins. Click Next. 4. Click Next at the VMware Patents screen. 5. Agree to the license...

How to install ESXi Server 5.5 U1 First things first we are going to install ESXi Server 5.5.0. This is the baremetal hypervisor that will run our VMs and may be one of several servers you wish to build into a cluster managed by vCenter server to provide HA, DRS and vMotion features for VMs. The ESXi server installation is straightforward, at this initial stage all we need to do is get the h...

Step-by-Step Guide – ESXi 5.5 Installation Overview VMware ESXi 5.5 is the bare metal hypervisor from VMware. This is the software we install onto physical servers in the Datacenter. ESXi is managed by VMware vCenter server. For your home-lab you will need two ESXi 5.5 hypervisor instances. ESX1 & ESX2. Both will be used, and managed by your vCenter 5.5 Server. There are two types of Hyp...

Horizon View 6.0 - Part 7 - Creating an RDS Desktop Pool Following on from creating an RDS Farm within Horizon View Administrator and an Application Pool based on applications hosted an RDS session host, we are going to create an RDS desktop pool.   That's right, you can now have a desktop which is a shared/hosted desktop on an RDS session host (much like Citrix XenApp). In some use...

Horizon View 6.0 - Part 6 - Creating an RDS Host Farm and Application Pool One of the most prominent new features of VMware Horizon View 6, is the ability to utilise Windows Server RDS Hosts to provide server based applications and desktops to users. This is quite possibly the most desirable feature of recent releases. As a consultant covering both VMware and Citrix solutions, this levels th...

Horizon View 6.0 - Part 5 - Creating an Automated Desktop Pool with Linked Clones Automated desktop pools contain desktops which are provisioned by vCenter server from a master image. A virtual machine created in vCenter (with a snapshot) is used to create several unique copies of the same desktop. When using View Composer, linked clones are created instead of full clones. Linked clones use...

Horizon View 6.0 - Part 4 - Creating a Windows 8.1 Golden/Master/Template Image To provision and present a Windows 8.1 (or Windows 8/7) virtual desktop via VMware View, there are a couple of VMware components that need to be installed on the master image and a number of steps performed. In this part I will guide you through the steps to build a Windows 8.1 master image which will used to pro...