HP P2000 G3 and VAAI with vSphere 5.0 and 5.1
HP’s P200 has been around a little while, and has had a bit of improvements done with firmware updates. While adding VAAI support to a P2000 is a little older news, I thought I would still write about it since I recently upgraded one and want to point out the differences for ESXi 5.0 [...]
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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 [...]
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Outlook unable to connect to Exchange 2010
Recently, I was doing a simple Exchange migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010. Once I moved all the mailboxes to the new exchange server, we noticed issues with Outlook. The version of Outlook was 2003. These were the issues being reported: Random Outlook freezing and locking Error – “Your Exchange Server administrator has [...]
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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 [...]
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