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Want to participate in VMware vSphere beta? Now is your chance

By admin on July 2, 2014 in General

For the first time, VMware has opened up the vSphere beta to the public. This is really cool. Although this is not an actual public beta, VMware wants to get as many members of the public involved to actually try the product and provide feedback. VMware vSphere beta This vSphere Beta will showcase some of the latest features included within vSphere and give you the opportunity to try them out. How to Join the Beta Navigate to https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere-beta and click “JOIN NOW!” button. Log in with your My VMware account. (Please register for an account if you don’t have one). Once you have an account and are logged in, please accept the Master Software Beta Test Agreement (MSBTA) and Program Rules screens if you have not already done so in the past. After doing this you should be in the vSphere Beta 2 community. Join Today: VMware vSphere Beta Landing Page […]

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VIDEO: Upgrade to ESXi 5.0 using Update Manager

By admin on July 12, 2012 in General

While upgrading two of my ESXi hosts today I found this really helpful howto video on the VMware KB website. It shows you a step by step walkthrough of how to upgrade your ESXi 4.1 host to ESXi 5.0. There is a lot more information on different ways to upgrade to ESXi 5.0 in this VMware KB.

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How to disable vSphere Host Cache Configuration

By admin on March 27, 2012 in General

Today playing in my lab I had an issue running some VMs on a SSD. It turns out the Host Cache Configuration was causing some issues running the VMs on the same SSD. You enable host cache when creating a datastore on a SSD, but how do you disable it? Its not an option on the datastore properties. To disable Host Cache Configuration follow the steps below: Select Configuration Tab Select Host Cache Configuration under software Right Click on the SSD Datastore and Select Properties Disable Checkbox for Allocate space for host cache Click OK DONE!! Thats it, host cache has been disabled.

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Auto Deploy GUI fling

By admin on March 7, 2012 in General

Back in February Max Daneri released his Auto Deploy GUI fling. This builds on the success of his PXE Manager fling released last year. Lots of other blogs have already reported this fling, but I have been asked three times this week where they can download it from. I will be writing a blog post soon on how to actually use this fling, much the same way I did with Max’s PXE Manager. Auto Deploy GUI is a front end interface to the Auto Deploy/Stateless infrastructure. Features The Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plug-in for the VMware vSphere Auto Deploy component. The GUI plug-in allows a user to easily manage the setup and deployment requirements in a stateless environment managed by Auto Deploy. Some of the features provided through the GUI include the ability to add/remove Depots, list/create/modify Image Profiles, list VIB details, create/modify rules to map hosts to […]

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Running nested ESXi on HP ML115 G5 – EVC Mode Gotcha

By admin on February 9, 2012 in General, VMware Posts

So for a couple of days I have been re-building my lab. This has been overdue for a longtime and I finally had some time to get it done. The main purpose of re-building my lab is to make sure it follows the base reference architecture for vCloud as documented in the VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit. Now you may notice the list of kit that I have in my lab below and wonder how I could do this with only two physical hosts. The simple answer is nested ESXi. The hardware in my lab consists of 1 HP ML115 G5 (AMD Opteron 1354 and 8GB RAM) 1 HP Microserver (AMD Athlon II Neo N36L and 8GB RAM) William Lam has wrote an excellent article on how to run nested ESXi within vSphere 5.0. This explains how to enable the hidden Guest OS settings. To read this article click here. So […]

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