EMC VSI 6.4 Web Client Plugin and the VNXe3200
EMC has released version 6.4 of the VSI plugin for the vSphere Web Client. This release fixes an issue with registering a VNXe3200 as storage system.
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vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)
Hyperconverged, Virtualization, VMware, Citrix, Datacenter Administration, and more…
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vSphere Software iSCSI Basics
In this post I am going to take a look at two common network configurations used when deploying iSCSI connectivity in a vSphere environment along with how to correctly configure vSphere networking and the software iSCSI adapter when using iSCSI storage.
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AutoLab Video Series Part 5 – Deploying the vMA
This fifth video in my AutoLab Video Series covers downloading, deploying, configuring, and using the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) virtual appliance in the AutoLab vSphere environment.
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Saving Searches with the vSphere Web Client
The ability to search vCenter inventory from the vSphere Client has been available for at least as long as I have been using it but each time you wanted to search for something you had to recreate the query. The Web Client provides the same search functionality adding the ability to also save commonly used searches. This allows for regularly used queries to be recalled quickly using the Web Client.
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Create a new Datacenter and Add ESXi Hosts with PowerCLI
This first PowerCLI script creates a new Data Center in vCenter inventory and adds a list of ESXi hosts to the new Data Center. Nothing real fancy here but the script does help speed up adding ESXi hosts to the vCenter inventory.
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vSphere Storage Appliance cleanup.bat
I have been doing some home lab work with the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA). I have had a few request recently from customers with very small environments looking to leverage virtualization and a couple of large environments looking for solutions for branch offices.
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vSphere 5.1 Announced!
Lot of great announcements this morning during the VMworld keynote. One of these being the official announcement of vSphere 5.1
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vSphere HA Protection: Protected? or Not?
So I set the restart priority of one of my VMs to disabled. HA reconfigured and the VM still showed protected. Hmmmm, shouldn’t show protected anymore, right?
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vSphere Auto Deploy – Image Profile and Booting ESXi
The VCAP5-DCA Blueprint has objectives on working with ESXi Image Profiles and configuring VMware Auto Deploy which are both new features that were released with vSphere 5.
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oneVirt Viewer Version 1.4.0 Released
oneVirt Viewer is a handy “cross platform” configuration data collection tool for vSphere 4 and 5. It is written in Java and can be used on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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I had some maintenance to do on my central syslog server and the server was down for about 30 minutes
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