Upgrade vSphere 4 Environment to vSphere 5
KB ID 0000543 Problem I will probably have a ton of these to do next year! The following process runs right through the entire migration process of vCenter, the ESX/ESXi hosts, The Datastores, The VM Tools, VMHardware, and finally re licencing everything with your new vSphere 5 keys. Solution Step 1 Verify your Software and Hardware Requirements 1. vCenter 5 Hardware Requirements: CPU: Requires Dual CPU (At least 2GHz – IA64...
Allow access to VMware View through Cisco ASA 5500
KB ID 0000545 Problem To access VMware View though a firewall you need the following ports to be open; TCP Port 80 (http/www) TCP Port 443 (https/ssl) TCP Port 4172 (PCoIP) UDP Port 4172 (PCoIP) In the following example I’m using 192.168.1.100 as the internal IP address of the View Server and the public IP address of the firewall is 123.123.123.123. Which solution you use, depends on weather you are allowing access via a...