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2020

Kubernetes Homelab – Rancher Configuration

In the previous post , we covered the architecture of the lab, installing Rancher in an Ubuntu VM, and then setting up an Ubuntu template …
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Kubernetes Homelab - Getting Started

I’ve been learning a lot on Kubernetes these last couple months, and wanted to get my homelab setup to a point to makes deploying …
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2018

Can't mount NFS volume in vSphere

Yesterday, I was working with Veeam Availability Orchestrator .next beta, and ran into a fun issue. During a Recovery plan test, the VMs are …
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Horizon View Bug - Host disconnected during Space Reclamation

**Guest post by Tim Shipp ** First and most importantly, huge thank you to Tim for allowing me to do this. You’re the best!Quick background …
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ESXi on ARM and Amazon RDS on-premises?

I got the opportunity to sit down with Keith Townsend ( The CTO Advisor) to talk about announcements at VMworld 2018. Among those …
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Intro to VMware Cloud Foundation

I sat down with Heath Johnson from VMware to find out more about VMware Cloud Foundation at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas. Cloud Foundation is …
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VMworld 2018 - vSphere 6.7 update 1 features

Today was the first day of VMworld 2018, and this will be the first post in a series on the event. Announced was vSphere 6.7 update 1. While …
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How to install Nutanix CE on VMware

Nutanix CE, or Community Edition, is the free community supported hypervisor of Nutanix. Nutanix CE allows you to create a hyper-converged …
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2017

VMware Cloud on AWS

It seems like lately, all the buzz had been around the cloud, especially public cloud. At VMworld 2017 , there is certainly no exception to …
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vCenter is dead! Long live vCenter!

VMworld 2017 kicks off today at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. Normally there are some major announcements that are made each year during …
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v101tv - vSphere Cluster Configuration

In this episode, we cover some of the cluster level features, such as HA, DRS, and DPM - and talk about predictive DRS, as well as …
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VMware discontinues vSphere Data Protection

On April 5th, VMware announced that they would discontinue VDP, vSphere Data Protection - VMware’s integration backup solution. Now, …
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v101tv - VCSA Configuration

Now that VCSA is installed, it’s time to start adding in hosts and configure them, as well as configuring a virtual distributed …
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2016

v101tv - Install VCSA

We’ve got ESXi installed and configured, now it’s time to get the VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) deployed into our lab so we …
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VMworld Day 1

After Partner Exchange, VMworld officially kicked off Sunday night, with a welcome reception in the Solutions Exchange. The welcome …
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VMworld Benefit - Community!

This year will be my 5th year attending the largest virtualization conference in the world, VMworld 2016. I still remember my first year - …
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v101tv – Initial ESXi Configuration

Now that ESXi is installed on our server, let’s log into each of the vSphere clients - C# client, and the embedded HTML5 host client, …
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VMworld 2016 - Coming soon

It’s that time of year again - time to get excited about heading to VMworld 2016! VMworld is the premier virtualization conference in …
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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Objective 1.2 Configure Identity Sources for Single Sign-On

Now that a Platform Services Controller installed, and vCenter Server installed; it’s time to configure single sign-on sources for our …
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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Objective 1.2 Deploy vCenter Server

Now that the Platform Services Controller (PSC) is installed, it’s time to install the vCenter server. For the lab, we will be …
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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Objective 1.2 Deploy and Configure a Platform Services Controller

Objective 1.2 deals with the managing infrastructure. In this blog, I will cover the installation of a Platform Services Controller on a …
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VCSA won't boot - fsck failed

Today I logged into my lab after a power outage and noticed that vCenter was not up. I accessed to host directly, and opened to console to …
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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Objective 1.1 Perform Advanced ESXi Host Configuration – Part 3

To finish off objective 1.1, we have three things to cover: Edit system swap / scratch configuration Configure ESXi to use a central syslog …
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VCAP-DCV Deploy – Objective 1.1 Perform Advanced ESXi Host Configuration – Part 2

In part 1 , we covered using Auto Deploy to install ESXi onto our physical hosts. In part 2, we will cover unattended installations. …
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VCAP-DCV Deploy - Objective 1.1 Perform Advanced ESXi Host Configuration - Part 1

To kick off the series on the blueprint for the VCAP-DCV exam, I thought I would start at the beginning. I will split objective 1.1 into 3 …
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VCAP-DCV Deploy - Study Guide Series

Since I hold a VCAP-DCD for 5.5, and want to upgrade to the VCIX-DCV 6, I have to study and take the VCAP-DCV Deploy test. Thankfully, …
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Veeam Replication - Installation

To continue on the Replication Roundup series, and not too far behind the Veeam ON conference, it only make sense to highlight Veeam …
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2015

VeeamON - v9 Announcements

This week, I’m out at in Las Vegas for the 20125 VeeamON conference. I wasn’t sure what to expect, as this is my first time, but …
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vSphere 6.0 Replication – Failover

Be sure to visit parts 1, 2, and 3: vSphere 6.0 Replication - Installation vSphere 6.0 Replication - Configuration vSphere 6.0 Replication - …
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VMworld 2015 - Day 1 Keynote

While VMworld kicked off Sunday with the Welcome reception, and even some sessions, Monday is the first full day. The day started off with …
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VMworld 2015 - Kickoff

It’s that time again. VMworld 2015 kicked off Saturday with the Welcome Reception. But, the unofficial start was earlier in the day. …
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vSphere 6.0 Replication – VM Replication

Be sure to visit parts 1 and 2: vSphere 6.0 Replication - Installation vSphere 6.0 Replication - Configuration Now that we have vSphere …
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vSphere 6.0 Replication – Configuration

In Part 1, vSphere 6.0 Replication - Installation , we successfully deployed the vSphere Replication OVA to both the main and DR sites. In …
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vSphere 6.0 Replication - Installation

The first product in our Replication Roundup is vSphere Replication. vSphere Replication is VMware’s product for VM based replication, …
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Replication Roundup - Kickoff

Since replication is a staple to any DR scenario, I wanted to cover various replication products installation, and failover procedures. This …
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2014

EVO:RAIL - Installation

Here at VMworld 2014, one of the hands on labs was the new EVO:Rail. The lab walks through the process of the installation and then creating …
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VMware's new product: EVO:RAIL

At VMworld this morning, VMware announced it’s latest product, EVO:RAIL . So just what is EVO:RAIL? EVO:RAIL is a hyper-converged …
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vSphere 101 - NTP Settings

I come across a lot of virtual environments (and physical) that don’t have NTP (Time Servers) setup properly. If you’ve ever …
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VSAN - Overview

This is part 1 in a new series covering VMware VSAN. Stay tuned for more! VMware VSAN (Virtual SAN) is a new storage offering from VMware, …
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2013

XP can't connect via vSphere 5.5 C# Client

Windows XP is going away, but yet quite a lot of people still use this for various reasons. Something that might pop up is after upgrading …
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Veeam Announces Support for vSphere 5.5

Veeam announced today Veeam 7 R2. The update now adds support for vSphere 5.5. Find all the information, and downloads from Veeam’s …
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Zerto: Moving a VM between VPGs

Having worked with Zerto for a while now, I have come to love VPGs (Virtual Protection Groups). However, sometimes the need arises to move a …
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Running Nested ESXi 5.5 on VSAN

With vSphere 5.5 now out, it was time to refresh my lab. I have ESXi 5.5 installed on a DL160 G6, with 1 SSD and 3 SATA drives, so I decided …
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Tech Field Day VMworld - Asigra and Simplivity

**This article got lost in my Drafts folder, but I wanted to make sure to publish as a lot of work went into putting on these events from …
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Upgrading vCSA (vCenter Appliance) from 5.1 to 5.5

VMware has made updating the vCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) very easy - and with the popularity of the vCSA growing daily, its a good …
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VMworld Overview

With VMworld wrapping up today, now is a good time to talk about all the events that went on this week. During VMworld, there are some …
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VMworld 2013 Day Zero

VMworld 2013 is here! Saturday started off with most people arriving and registering. The backpacks this year are quite nice, and different …
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VMworld - What to know before you go

With VMworld comming up very quickly, I thought I would create a quick post about some things to know before you go. Items to remember: …
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vSphere 101 - Remove Getting Started tabs

In the old client, removing the “Getting Stated” tabs from each windows was easily accessed from the view menu. Thankfully, the …
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vSphere 101 - Updating the vCSA (Virtual Center Server Appliance)

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 …
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vExpert 2013 awarded

Last night, John Troyer (@jtroyer ) announced the new list of vExperts for 2013 here . I am ecstatic and humbled to be selected to be a …
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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 …
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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 …
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Training Resources - TrainSignal

*Disclaimer: While TrainSignal is sponsoring my blog, the views expressed in this post are my own. Recently, TrainSignal revamped their …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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! …
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Veeam Job fails after upgrade to vSphere 5.1

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 …
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vSphere 5.1 Lab - HP StoreVirtual VSA Install

Next, I needed some shared storage to eventually present to my nested ESXi servers. I decided to use HP’s StoreVirtual VSA (Formerly …
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vSphere 5.1 Lab - Initial Setup

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 …
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Veeam Encounter - Part 1

I’ve been using various products along the way to backup Virtual Machines in VMware Environments. However, it wasn’t until mid …
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EMC VNXe 3100 - An Introduction

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 …
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Passed VCP510 Exam

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 …
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vSphere VSA Raid requirements relaxed!

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 …
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2011

Switching to Linux?

I’ve been getting frustrated with Windows lately - like everyone has at some point or another.. So I decided I would attempt to run …
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Creating a Nested ESXi 5 Environment

**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 …
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vSphere 5 VSA – Virtual San Appliance – Part 3

Management and Maintenance As if getting the VSA installed wasn’t easy enough, VMware has made the VSA virtually (no pun intended) …
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vSphere 5 VSA – Virtual San Appliance – Part 2

Installation and Configuration Now it’s time to install the VSA. Remember, we need 2 (or 3) fresh ESXi 5.0 installs, joined to our …
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vSphere 5 VSA - Virtual San Appliance - Part 1

With the release of vSphere 5, comes VMware’s VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance). What exactly is it? Well, it’s VMware’s …
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vSphere 5 vRAM Changes

Thanks to the numerous traffic about vSphere 5’s vRAM “tax” - VMware has changed the entitlements. (Take a look at …
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Vmware View client for Android

New on the Android market today: VMware View - Tech Preview for Android. From the market: VMware View Client for Android makes it easy to …
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Vmware View and Right Shift

I’ve noticed on several occasions that the right shift key doesn’t seem to work in RDP sessions when I am using a VMware View …
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VM’s NIC shows as a removable device

It was pointed out to me by a co-worker that the NIC in a VMware virtual machine shows up as a removable device in the system tray. While …
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VMware Cloud Foundry

VMware just launched Cloud Foundry , which is a PaaS. Platform as a Service. According to the FAQ, there will be three offerings: …
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Video drivers for a 2008 R2 VM

This week I was installing a 2008 R2 VM again on ESX4.x. I noticed that the Video driver was the windows based driver, and not a VMware SVGA …
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