During the installation of vCenter 5.1 on a Windows server 2012 I ran into an issue where the installation of the vCenter failed. The prerequisite services installed without problems but the vCenter service failed to install. The installation stopped with a Failed to install VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage error. …

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One of our vSphere host showed as disconnected in vCenter. Connecting directly to the host with the vSphere client wouldn’t work neither. When restaring the services on the host I was able to connect directly but within one minute the connection between the client and the host would be lost. Image not found Web …

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One of the new features in vSphere 4.1 is the ability to configure Host affinity rules for DRS. These enable you to split your vSphere cluster in several groups of hosts and assign assign a subset of your VMs to one of these groups. There are plenty of use cases for this: Netapp Metrocluster Applications licensed based …

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