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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
**UPDATED for ESXi 5.1 HERE** Since vSphere 5 was released earlier this year, it is now time to get ready to pass the VCP exam. I am a VCP for both 3.5 and 4, and decided I would post some…