Mirage Management Server Installation 5.7

For the installation of MMS(Mirage Management Server) what I usually call it as. Now just a few days back the new version is released i.e 5.8 with a lot of enhancements. There is a prerequisite for the installation of MMS i.e the machine should be joined to a domain.

1. Double click on Mirage Management Server setup. 

2. Provide with the correct SQL Server name & instance as discussed in previous SQL server installation for mirage.

 3. In 5.7 and 5.8, Now we support mongoDB that needs minimum 250 GB of disk space.

4. Provide in with the user whether you are using a domain or specific user from AD and provide the qualified name for administrator group from AD.

Virtual SAN 6.2 Maximums

• Total number of Virtual Machines per vSAN cluster = 6400
• Maximum Host in a cluster = 64
• Maximum number of virtual machines protected by
  vSphere HA=6400
• Maximum number of disk groups per host = 5
• Maximum number of disks in a disk group for capacity =7
• Maximum number of components= 45000( Till vSAN 6.1)
• Maximum size for VMDK = 62TB (Supported)
• Maximum number of snapshots = 32 , recommended = 16
• Maximum size for a single component = 255GB
• Minimum host required=3

Clone of ESXi VM for testing (Datastore Conflict Issue)

• For testing purpose , when I cloned a ESXi VM and adding it to the vCenter I get this error.

• After a lot of work and search for resignaturing the datastore that did'nt worked.
• Then simply I connected to ESXi host and deleted the local datastore.
• Added it back by adding a storage and discovering the same local datastore (vmdk). 
• Created a new datastore and added the same ESXi host to vCenter and there you go. Cloned ESXi host VM is ready to be used.

Step by Step Installation of MS SQL 2012 R2 Express Edition for Horizon Mirage

1.Initate the SQL setup . I have started a new installation

2. .Net framework 3.5 SP1  is required and if not installed you have to.  If everything goes good  you will get all the tests as PASSED.

3. Here instead of choosing a default installation , use named instance. I used SQLEXPRESS.

4.The different services will use different users. Leave it default.

5.Just make sure to add Current user to every service just by clicking Add Current User

6.Add Current User

7.Click NEXT here.

8. Add Current User

9. Make sure you have enough space for its installation.

10.Install it. 

• Will share the installation of Mirage Management Server in next post.