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…
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…