This week on vSphere 101, I am going to walk through the process of updating your vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). The vCSA is a linux based vCenter appliance, that doesn't require a windows license, and has SSO and the…
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…
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…
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…
Now that vSphere 5.1 is been out a little while, there are more and more upgrades happening. One problem that I run across while upgrading is that the Veeam backup job fails the next morning if you aren't aware of…