vCloud Lab – Planning
With the release of vSphere 5.1, comes a new version of vCloud as well. I thought this would be a great chance to put up a vCloud lab at home, and to share the steps for others who want…
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May 6, 2013
Upcoming Webinar – The Perfect Storm: Bloggers and Virtualization
Webinar: April 18 @ 12pm Eastern Join Eric Siebert, noted blogger, author, VMware vExpert and the proprietor of vSphere-land.com where he has been running his popular top blog voting for 4 years that determines the most popular bloggers…
April 17, 2013
Training Resources – TrainSignal
*Disclaimer: While TrainSignal is sponsoring my blog, the views expressed in this post are my own. Recently, TrainSignal revamped their website, and delivery method of training classes. Previously, training was available by ordering a specific class, and receiving some…
April 16, 2013
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…
April 4, 2013
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…
March 4, 2013
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…
February 20, 2013
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…
January 21, 2013
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…
December 28, 2012
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…
December 17, 2012
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…
November 20, 2012