In the previous part I’ve detailed the specs of this board, talked a bit about the 2011-3 CPU architecture and possibilities, but also touched a bit on IPMI management. Since it’s something new in my homelab as previous builds were always done from consumer (desktop) boards I thought that it might be a good idea to […]
ESXi Offline Bundle Download – To Upgrade ESXi
Well, this post isn’t ready about where to download this file but rather how to make your ESXi to download it….ESXi offline bundle file allows upgrade ESXi 5.x to 6.0 with a single line of code (or rather two..) via SSH – check my post on it here. You need to download the ESXi Offline Bundle for […]
WinReducer for W8.x, W10 can customize Windows ISO
If you know Nlite (now supports W8 and W10 preview too) you probably like customizing Windows ISOs. There has always been an alternative called WinReducer that I blogged about in the past. The good news is that this free software got an update recently and is able to support W7 up to W10 (preview). WinReducer for W8.x, […]
Nested ESXi 6 in a Lab
I was playing a lot with Nested ESXi 6 in a lab recently. But it does not matter, we can do quite a lot with a 64 Gigs of RAM and bunch of SSDs… What’s new in this release is the fact that VM tools are installed by default so the nested ESXi behaves like […]
How to Tag SSD as Capacity Tier in VSAN 6
This article will show few commands which are necessary when you want to tag flash device used in VSAN 6 All-Flash configuration as a capacity tier. For now it’s manual process via CLI but GUI utility shall be available soon too. As you know VMware VSAN 6.0 allows configuration of Spinning disks + SSD OR […]
VCP 6 Exam Available – What’s Your Options?
VMware has finally released a VCP 6 Certification Exam. Still in beta for now and there is also a new vSphere 6 Foundation Beta exam. We’ll see the details in this post. The new exam was announced by VMware few days back and we can see that new candidates will now need to take two […]
How to backup and restore vPostgres database on VCSA 6
After the release of VMware vSphere 6, the vCenter Server Appliance 6 (Linux) has a possibility to run vPostgres internal DB. The VCSA with vPostgress DB can support up to up to 1000 hosts and 10,000 VMs using the embedded database. If you running vCenter server 6 appliance (VCSA) the built in vPostgres database can be backed […]
Install ESXi 6 to USB as Destination or Have it as Source (USB installer)
VMware ESXi hypervisor can be installed on USB stick, but you can also create USB stick which contains ESXi installer in case your server does not have CD/DVD drive. You could see in my previous post when wrote small tutorial on Install VMware ESXi on USB memory stick by using Unetbootin Freeware. I received few questions through […]
vSphere 6 Download – With a Free App Called VMware Software Manager
There is an new free app which allows vSphere 6 download (but also vSphere 5.x). This app is called VMware Software Manager and it allows downloading VMware suite products withing a web based UI. in its first release the product does not support all VMware products download, but only part of them, starting vSphere 5.1, going […]
Certificate Manager for vCenter Server Appliance 5.5
There is new free tool from VMware Labs which was just released. It’s destined to be used with vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 and It allows to replace certificates for vCenter Server, Inventory Service, Log Browser, and Auto Deploy and it uses GUI front end. Note that under vSphere 5.5 there was only a CLI tool, which […]
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