David Hill

My VMware Home Lab v2

By admin on December 19, 2013 in VMware Posts

A while back I wrote an article on what my VMware Home Lab looked like. (Original Article is here) Since I wrote this article I have been able to acquire some more HP Microservers (Thanks again @VMRandy). I have spent some time re-building the whole lab, and bringing everything up to the latest GA versions of VMware products. I thought it was about time I updated my Home Lab article so people could see what I have done now. As in the previous article, lets start by looking at my kit: 1 x HP ML115 G5 – Quad Core AMD Opteron 8GB RAM 2 x 256GB HD – RAID 1 2GB USB 2 x 1GB NIC 1 x 1GB On-board NIC 2 4 x HP Microserver N54L – 2.2Ghz 16GB RAM 4 x 256GB HD – RAID 5 2GB USB 2 x 1GB NIC 1 x 1GB On-board NIC 1 x […]

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vCloud Connector interoperability v2.5

By admin on December 18, 2013 in Cloud Computing

This is a quick article to document vCloud Connector interoperability and the supported versions of vSphere and vCloud Director. I am not one for trawling through Installation documents to find a simple support matrix showing which versions it supports, so thought I would post this extremely quick article. vCloud Connector Interoperability Matrix Product Version vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 vCloud Director 1.5, 5.1, 5.5 vShield Manager (vCNS) 5.1.2, 5.5 vSphere Client 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 This table was originally sourced from the vCloud Connector installation guide. Click here to read.

Enable backups of Virtual Machines in vCloud Hybrid Service

By admin on December 17, 2013 in vCloud Air

Starting in my new role as Technical Marketing Manager yesterday for the vCloud Hybrid Service, I have found that you can very easily backup your VM’s running in vCHS. I wasnt aware you could do this. Most people who have been following my blog over the years know that backups and vCloud Director have in the past been a challenge to say the least. With vCloud Hybrid Service you can enable daily backups of you VMs very easily. Enable Backups of Virtual Machines So lets take a look at how you enable backups within vCHS. Login to the portal at vchs.vmware.com Find the Virtual Machine you want to backup, and click the drop down arrow: From the menu click Enable Data Protection You will be asked if you want to continue and Enable Data Protection Once the task is completed, you will see the notification confirming it has been enabled […]

Wifi No Hardware installed – Mac install

By admin on October 23, 2013 in MAC OS X

I updated to the latest Mac OS X today. After the update, once the computer started up, the wifi wouldn’t work. Couldn’t enable it. Everytime you clicked the wireless icon you got the error WIFI No Hardware Installed. I had seen a similar issue with my Mac Mini in the past, so thought I would try resetting the NVRAM. This has seemed to solve most issues I have experienced on Mac’s in the past. Reset NVRAM Shut down the computer. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. Turn on the computer. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time. Release the keys. Once the computer powers on your wireless will now be working. To find out more about […]

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