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…
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…
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…
Next, I needed some shared storage to eventually present to my nested ESXi servers. I decided to use HP's StoreVirtual VSA (Formerly LeftHand) because I work with it fairly often, and because it's the only VSA supported for SRM. HP…
With the release of vSphere 5.1 now, and some of the new features, I decided to dedicate a new series of posts just to 5.1, and install it all in my lab environment - from the ground up. First off…
I've been using various products along the way to backup Virtual Machines in VMware Environments. However, it wasn't until mid 2011 that I was really introduced to Veeam. So, I figured I would share my experience. At my previous job,…
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,…