27 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

vSphere 5 vCenter – Check New Notifications tasks are queued

When you log on to your vCenter server and you see a long list of queued of “Check new notifications” tasks with the status of queued you will probably wonder how do does this happen and what to do? The tasks are initiated by “VMware vSphere Update Manager Check Notification” so you’ll have to restart that [...]

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10 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Create a Bootable vSphere 5 USB installation media

In the modern server world we don’t always have a cd/dvd drive in the server, but we always have USB. But how do we get the downloaded vSphere 5 .iso file onto a USB media and make it bootable? Required hardware An USB Media with a FAT32 Partition Required downloads: [ download here ] – [...]

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