As you might already noticed, ESX Virtualization lab is located at Reunion Island – a tropical island with not only beautiful beach resorts, amazing trekking possibilities or a very active volcano, but also with local IT shops, local industry or institutions which need that their IT just works. And that’s our role – consultants, IT […]
Windows Server 2016 GUI Install – How to
The default install of the Windows Server 2016 (Tech preview 2) do not provide Graphical User Interface (GUI) and even the second option only installs the local administrative tools (Server Manager). Not the traditional desktop that we’re used to having in 2012 R2 or 2008 R2 server systems. So if you take the second option […]
Infinio Accelerator 2.0 Released
Infinio Accelerator 2.0 Released today. What is Infinio? It’s an unique caching solution that only needs some RAM from your hosts to create shared deduplicated caching pool which will accelerate your VMware vSphere environment. With such a cache in place, the storage requests does not need to go all the way down to your NAS, but it’s the […]
Rename computer remotely – [Guide]
One of those “magics” you may want to experiment in the lab or perhaps impress some of your colleges, IT guys within your company, who knows? It’s the function to rename computer remotely. This operation however needs some downtime on the other end as the system will obviously needs to reboot. The fun part on […]
VMware vCenter Server Availability Guide
With vSphere 6 and the concentration of the different services which runs on the top, vCenter server can become a single point of failure. Not all services depends on vCenter for example. VMware HA can run itself without vCenter just fine, but if you uses Autodeploy for example or vSphere Web client, inventory service… all […]
The Virtual Machine is Running in monitor mode that is incompatible for Fault Tolerance – How to Fix
When doing a testing in my lab today I had this error saying “The Virtual Machine is Running in monitor mode that is incompatible for Fault Tolerance” – when wanting to activate VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) on one of my test VMs. The test VM it was a Windows 2012 R2 VM and I was […]
How-to use VMware vCenter Server Support Assistant 6.0
VMware vCenter Server Support Assistant 6.0 is Free virtual appliance (and plugin) which aims to help to proactively monitor your environment for alerts and recommended fixes. It allows to receive alerts or monthly status emails. The appliance helps when filling up support requests for VMware (reactive support) as it collects and attaches the diagnostic information […]
VMturbo 5.2 Released with QoS Adherence for Applications
VMturbo has released new version of their flagship product – VMturbo Operations Manager 5.2. A very interesting feature has been added to this release – QoS for applications. The previous VMturbo release has brought Application Control Module (ACM) and in the 5.2 release a SQL and Oracle support has been added for ACM. So it […]
Z-Drive 6000 – High Performance PCIe Enterprise SSD with NVMe Interface
Z-Drive 6000 is a new NVMe compliant PCIe enterprise SSD from OCZ Storage Solutions (Now part of Toshiba Group). NVM Express (or NVMe) stands for Non-Volatile Memory. NVMe has larger queue depth than SCSI (64000 over 254 for SAS, or 31 for SATA). NVMe Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCI), is a specification for accessing solid-state drives […]
How-to Connect to vCenter 6 vPostgress Database with PgAdmin
vCenter Server 6.0 is using by default the internal vPostgress Database. If you chose this option during the installation over an SQL server installation you basically lose the possibility to manage this DB, unless you install some vPostgress management tool. One of those tools is PgAdmin and in this post we will take a look […]
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