In case you haven’t heard the voting is now open for the 2013 Top 25 vBlogs at vSphere Land. Last year I was humbled and surprised for my blog to come from nowhere to the 21st on the list. I am hoping that I can stay in the top 25 for 2013, but myself and others need your help and ... Read More »
Folks this has become an interesting discussion on a VMware Community Forum as of a few weeks ago about this vSphere 5.1 error. In fact I myself ran into the same issue on a new build with the vCloud Service Evaluation cloud a couple of weeks ago. I decided being a good citizen and VMware employee to start an internal discussion of ... Read More »
In recent weeks I have been working on configuring a workload as a virtual machine and I ran into a scenario where it required a specific vSwitch advanced setting to be used. I will describe the basic setup then the resolution to the issue. Below is a basic diagram of the setup for any vSphere virtual switch we have all seen before ... Read More »
Okay I know the title sounds a little bit like, “Why on earth would you need to do that?”. Well as with everything this odd situation happened to me as I was rebuilding a lab kit in the Cambridge office. Here is the situation that resulted in the need to deal with such an odd situation. vCenter Server was toast ... Read More »
Gabe has written up a really nice article recently about HA Admission Control you should read. It made me think of a very recently conversation I had with some folks about HA Admission Control and vCloud Director specifically. Namely, the fact they disabled it entirely. Even when I was a vSphere administrator, before I was more educated, I made the same mistakes of ... Read More »
This question comes up a lot and only recently did I ask this of engineering and the answer is quite simple. We all know that Preparing a host for vCloud Director essentially installs the vCloud Director Agent onto ESXi. However, the secondary question that usually gets asked is, “What does the vCloud Director Agent actually do?” I decided to ask that and ... Read More »
Post written by contributing author Kris Boyd and Chris Colotti As part of the Disaster Recovery solution that Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti developed, Kris Boyd has been working on a comparative VMware View Solution using the same basic principles. However, one thing both solutions came across is a unique situation on the vCenter virtual machines when trying to use Site ... Read More »
Guest post by Shane Williford Last week I was going through some tweet history from my European colleagues, and one particular tweet stood out to me by Alan Renouf. He mentioned that “if you are a system admin of any kind, you *should* be using this tool”. That tool being vCheck (see HERE for info, download, & video on how to use). At ... Read More »
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