vsphere 5
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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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 [...]
Tags: HP, P2000, SAN, Storage, vsphere 5, vSphere 5.1
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Windows 8 and vSphere client
So, you’ve upgraded to Windows 8, and are wanting to connect to your VM console via vSphere. Uh Oh! A wild error message appears! “The VMRC console has disconnected…attempting to reconnect” What’s happening? Well, the short story is that when connecting to the console, the vSphere client uses an Internet Explorer plugin, which is not [...]
Tags: Microsoft, vmware, vsphere 5, vSphere 5.1, Windows 8
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Passed VCP510 Exam
This morning I took the VCP510 exam and passed! This was a little tougher than the VCP4 exam. 85 questions, and it took me an hour. Lots of good questions. This is one thing that I have liked about VMware, is that they make it near impossible to pass these without hands-on experience (either production, [...]
Tags: Certification, VCP, vmware, vsphere 5
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vSphere VSA Raid requirements relaxed!
Today VMware announced on it’s blog that the RAID 1o requirements will be dropped, and that VMware will be supporting RAID 5 and RAID 6 as well. See the blog here, and see the updated documentation here. So, this means that you will be able to use more of your local storage! Before, with RAID [...]
Tags: SAN, Storage, vmware, VSA, vsphere 5
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