Management and Maintenance As if getting the VSA installed wasn't easy enough, VMware has made the VSA virtually (no pun intended) management free. With your Datacenter selected, simply click back on the VSA Manager tab, and you will be presented…
Installation and Configuration Now it's time to install the VSA. Remember, we need 2 (or 3) fresh ESXi 5.0 installs, joined to our vCenter server. Now, for the easy part... (it's actually all easy) Installation: Run the VSA setup from…
With the release of vSphere 5, comes VMware's VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance). What exactly is it? Well, it's VMware's answer of providing shared storage to SMBs that don't purchase a physical SAN or NAS. It will use the local storage…
Thanks to the numerous traffic about vSphere 5's vRAM "tax" - VMware has changed the entitlements. (Take a look at Justin's post here explaining vRAM "tax" and how it works.) Basically, VMware has made 3 changes: Increased vRAM entitlements…