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…
Recently, I got my hands on the EMC vnxe 3100. It's a great SAN solution for SMBs, and very easy to setup and administer. Having worked mostly with Equalogic and HP SAN solutions, The Unisphere interface on the EMC VNXe's…
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,…
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…