Virtualization
vCloud Lab – Planning
With the release of vSphere 5.1, comes a new version of vCloud as well. I thought this would be a great chance to put up a vCloud lab at home, and to share the steps for others who want to learn the setup and management of vCloud, but don’t have a lot of physical [...]
Tags: cloud, vCloud, vmware, vSphere 5.1
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SSH can’t be disabled on ESXi server
This is something I have come across a couple of times, but yet couldn’t find a lot on it when I searched – so I thought I would add to the search results. Randomly, I will get an error when I go to stop the SSH service on an ESXi 5 server: “Call ‘HostServiceSystem.Stop’ [...]
Tags: error, ESXi, vmware, vsphere 5
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Voting open for the 2013 top VMware and Virtualization blogs!
vSphere-land is at it again, and has started the process for the top virtualization blogs for 2013. This is a great way for community members to vote about resources they have found helpful. From vSphere-land’s site: “There are over 200 blogs dedicated to VMware and virtualization, here’s your chance to pick your favorites and [...]
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vSphere 5.1 Lab – Installing the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
Now that we’ve got some VSA’s sharing storage, and some nested ESXi hosts, it’s time to get vCenter up and running. VMware has a vCenter appliance, which scales quite nicely. One benefit of the vCSA is that it doesn’t require a Windows license – otherwise, the benefits for most running this or the Windows [...]
Tags: Linux, vCenter, Virtual Appliance, vmware, vSphere 5.1
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vSphere 5.1 Lab – Nested ESXi 5.1
Now that I’ve got some shared storage setup for the lab environment, it’s time to get some ESXi 5.1 hosts. Since this is a lab environment, I want to run some nested ESXi 5.1 hosts. Running nested means installing a hypervisor inside of another hypervisor. This could be XenServer, Hyper-V, or ESXi. Obviously, I recommend the later! You [...]
Tags: Virtual Machine, vmware, vSphere 5.1
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