Update: You might want to follow the How to use VMware Certificate Automation Tool, my recent article where I’m using the tool to replace SSL certificates in my lab. Managing certificates through vCenter components is a pain. VMware reacts (finally) and released a command line tool called vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 which enables you to automate the […]
FVP – Server Storage Pooled Flash by PernixDATA
Imagine you have the possibility to plugin a single (or multiple) SSDs to each of your host of you cluster running VMware vSphere, and create a very fast redundant storage tier based on flash. In addition, no existing network or storage changes are necessary. Pure fiction? Not really. PernixData is new startup company, which works on […]
vCenter Server Heartbeat Installation Video
vCenter Server Heartbeat is a product that allows the protection of vCenter server. You’ll find many good tips on designing the solution and there are many links to documentation and online help explained as well. This post shows the vCenter Server Heartbeat Installation Video. The deployment showed in this video is as virtual-virtual. You’ll find about […]
Fix 3 Warning Messages when deploying ESXi hosts in a lab
Recently deploying another ESXi host which does shared storage for the whole lab at the same time pointed out the usual warning messages. Most of you usually know all of them, but for the new people which are trying to learn, this post might be useful. When working in my lab, installing ESXi hosts which runs […]
Homelab Nexenta on ESXi – as a VM
Homelab Nexenta on ESXi. In the article I wrote few days back I was building a NAS box for my lab and was going to use it not only as a pure storage box, but also as an ESXi host. At the same time I was going to explore the ZFS possibilities with L2ARC and ZIL […]
Building NAS Box With SoftNAS
I’ve recently bought some parts to replace my old NAS build to get more power and more IOPS. This NAS box will be used for lab only. I also recovered some parts from the old box, but added some SSD’s. The Mini-NAS will be used also as an ESXi box. While the Mini-ITX boards are […]
vCenter Server Appliance Upgrade Process Video
vCenter Server Appliance is very popular for small deployment and also during home lab testings. This is mostly because of it’s limitations, and also because of dependency on windows based vCenter plugins. The vCSA 5.1 does currently have some limitations, but the future is going to be with vCSA: 5 hosts and 50 virtual machines. […]
Microsoft Sharepoint Explorer – Another Cool Feature comming up in V7 of Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam has announced Veeam Sharepoint Explorer feature to be present in the upcoming version of Veeam Backup & Replication. Cool Feature for Sharepoint admins, which will be present in the upcoming V7 of Veeam Backup & Replication. The Sharepoint Explorer brings the possibility to navigate through Sharepoint DB and restore directly documents from there, or […]
vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) videos
vCloud Automation center (vCAC) is a new product that has been announced during VMworld Barcelona. vCAC enables you to automate provisioning and management if IT services across multi-vendor deployment technologies, tools and processes. This product is quite complex but automation provided can reduce complexity and risk, speed of deployments. It’s an automation toolkit. I have reported on details […]
Nakivo Backup & Replication 3.0 released – bringing FLR support
Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.0 has been released today and brought in an indispensable feature for every viable virtualization backup solution out there – a File Level Recovery (FLR). Without this feature you, IT admin, can’t live. Or will have to have different backup solution (usually in guest) that enables you to recover individual files […]
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