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Got disgusted watching the Minnesota Vikings fall for a fake punt and a fake field goal within a 5 minute span so jumped on my computer and happened to check VMware's download page.

5.5 download commencing. This should take my mind off how bad my football team sucks.
 
nice! I'm going and buying a box tomorrow for my vmware lab. It'll be nice to get to start on 5.5
 
Error right off the bat trying to upgrade SSO.

Error 1603 while importing Lookupservice Data. Upgrading from SSO 5.1.
 
Watch out on the SSO update.
Quick word of advice, if you have the Windows install of vcenter running and its going to a SQL database, backup the table that holds the permissions. Its very common to have the SSO update wipe out your permissions table.

If you have the option to destroy your vcenter appliance and rebuild away from 5.1 then great!

Ill be loading 5.5 as soon as my new HBA gets here.
Finally ill be able to mount >2TB vmdks without using lame RDMs.

Nick
 
SSO isn't working for me. I've added my AD domain to SSO both using machine account and STS, yet I can't authenticate with AD accounts.

Tried deleting and re-adding permissions since I had to re-install SSO as the upgrade wouldn't work but no luck.
 
Had to disable C1 in the BIOS to get the installer to boot. Worked fine with it on with 5.1. Upgrading as we speak.

Edit: Just had to renable it to get it to boot after upgrade. Weird.

Annnnd 5.5 won't work on my motherboard. Gets hung at initializing acpi. Updated bios and changed all the power settings. No go. Reinstalling 5.1 :(.
 
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Grabbed all the files and turns out I get an education license for the vcloud standard so I gots to play with that when I get some time. Might be taking Thursday off to recover from a small surgery so that might be my rebuild home virtualization day. I'm glad it's released already, I need to do a full infrastructure upgrade at work and I'm just finalizing hardware quotes this week. I was worried about having to decide whether to install 5.1 SSO again or hang myself. It was a tough call which way I would go.
 
You know the one thing I dislike it that they disallow you from downloading either the trial versions you were licensed for (to reinstall) or d/l updated versions if you are not licensed for it. Makes it hard to reload is you need to and loose the ISO.
 
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Got sick of dealing with the upgrade on my Windows vCenter server and migrated everything to vCSA. One less Windows VM to patch I suppose.
 
I hope this fixes my passthrough issues i been having. Didn't want to downgrade to 5.0 cause I knew 5.5 was comming soon.
 
Heads up to anyone with a home lab, the 5.5 image no longer contains Realtek NIC drivers. You can take the ones from the 5.1 offline bundle and add them to the 5.5 bundle manually and they work.
 
I also noticed it will not install with anything less than 4GB RAM. (Autolab uses 2GB ESXi hosts).
 
Having some strange NFS connectivity issues, fresh install, however, it's nested in Workstation 10 on my Laptop. I ended up having to reset the firewall settings for the NFS Client on each host. Not sure if its a "nested" issue or a real issue...will find out shortly after my upgrade is done on my full lab.
 
It was noted that 5.5 increased the ram requirement. It was 2GB for a while, this got me last night when I was testing the licenses I had too.
 
Vader said:
Having some strange NFS connectivity issues, fresh install, however, it's nested in Workstation 10 on my Laptop. I ended up having to reset the firewall settings for the NFS Client on each host. Not sure if its a "nested" issue or a real issue...will find out shortly after my upgrade is done on my full lab.
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I always had issues with iscsi after an upgrade never nfs. Weird.
 
Sweet, downloading it now. I think now is the time when I'm going to switch to vCSA as well... I'll give the "upgrade" a whirl on my windows vCenter server, but if it goes sideways, just going to switch to vCSA.
 
Moving from windows based to the appliance... is there a way to do that and retain your performance history, etc. ?
 
@phreakpiercer

They changed how the database works in vcenter 5.1 > 5.5 so I would not expect the performance stats would correctly export over. The internet has a lot of PowerCLI scripts of how to "backup" your vcenter if you want to keep your Settings, permissions etc and export/import those to a new vcenter. This works from the thick build to the appliance too.

I have some of those scripts on my site that may help with the process. I'll try to add more since ill be doing the same export/import here shortly.

http://pcli.me
 
Upgrading tonight at home, pretty excited as I passed on 5.1 both professionally and personally.
 
Upgrade complete, only took about 30 minutes to upgrade VCA and my ESXi host.
 
Tried upgrading vCenter install... went sideways, as I half expected it to. Now I get an "Error writing to disk" error when I try to deploy the OVF for vCSA though, whoops. Guess I know what I'll be doing after work tonight :D
 
might upgrade tonight have to see how my time ends up working out
 
Can't wait to see if pass through works again, id love to pass through a video card and then virtualize my HTPC...
 
Angus said:
Can't wait to see if pass through works again, id love to pass through a video card and then virtualize my HTPC...
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Lots of people have had great success doing this with Xen, if you're up for something different.
 
Dephcon said:
Lots of people have had great success doing this with Xen, if you're up for something different.
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Would definitely be curious to hear if 5.5 makes this workable. I'm rebuilding my server next week after having a motherboard failure, and was contemplating going to Xen for precisely that reason.
 
Well the box is upgraded seems to be working. Have to dig in more latter
 
Angus said:
Can't wait to see if pass through works again, id love to pass through a video card and then virtualize my HTPC...
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Me too, except with a Ceton tuner for extender only viewing.

Does someone have the time to test this? I will not be able to for the next few weeks.
 
Dephcon said:
Lots of people have had great success doing this with Xen, if you're up for something different.
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I'm interested, would you happen to have more info? For this route to work with ideal condition, a Ceton tuner and Supermicro SAS HBAs would need to work with some version of Xen (a product I have 0 experience with)
 
nicholasfarmer said:
@phreakpiercer

They changed how the database works in vcenter 5.1 > 5.5 so I would not expect the performance stats would correctly export over. The internet has a lot of PowerCLI scripts of how to "backup" your vcenter if you want to keep your Settings, permissions etc and export/import those to a new vcenter. This works from the thick build to the appliance too.

I have some of those scripts on my site that may help with the process. I'll try to add more since ill be doing the same export/import here shortly.

http://pcli.me
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I've had your site in my bookmarks for a little while now. Nice point of reference. I'll keep an eye out.
 
J-Will said:
I'm interested, would you happen to have more info? For this route to work with ideal condition, a Ceton tuner and Supermicro SAS HBAs would need to work with some version of Xen (a product I have 0 experience with)
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This is the post the initially caught my eye on the Mint forums:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=112013&f=42


There's also been a surge of discussion about it over at the unRAID forums:

XenServer:
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28665.0

Xen on Arch:
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28931.0

Xen on Ubuntu:
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28878.0


When using Xen on top of a normal distro, you could use the underlying OS for Xen and XBMC(onboard gfx), then have a VM for a storage array and another VM for a Windows desktop (add-in gfx) in any room of the house with HDMI/USB over ethernet adaptors.
 
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Child of Wonder said:
Error right off the bat trying to upgrade SSO.

Error 1603 while importing Lookupservice Data. Upgrading from SSO 5.1.
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Theres a registry setting for SSO that needs to be changed from an IP address to FQDN. When your going through the SSO setup it shows a page with checks next to it. One says FQDN and probably has an IP.. go to local machine/software/vmware/sso(i believe) and there's a key called FQDN change it to the name of your machine and try it again.

Our environment had this happen to at work. We actually were one of the test subjects for the KB article..

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi...nguage=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2060511
 
Jerky_san said:
Theres a registry setting for SSO that needs to be changed from an IP address to FQDN. When your going through the SSO setup it shows a page with checks next to it. One says FQDN and probably has an IP.. go to local machine/software/vmware/sso(i believe) and there's a key called FQDN change it to the name of your machine and try it again.

Our environment had this happen to at work. We actually were one of the test subjects for the KB article..

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi...nguage=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2060511
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Nice. Thanks for posting this!
 
I downloaded this update on Tuesday this week shortly after release, really looking forward to dropping it on my new ESXi lab system when it arrives (in bits) today. Decided to go the desktop route as opposed to server for this system - a nice AMD Piledriver 8350, 32GB RAM and 2 x 180GB Intel 335 SSD's - I want to test HP VSA running on this and a similar system using network RAID. Also I need to upgrade the second system from 5.1 U1 so it will be a good test of that too judging by the posts above!
 
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