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My VSAN journey – Part 2 – How-to delete partitions to prepare disks for VSAN if the disks aren’t clean

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 12, 2014

In part one of My VSAN journey I outlined the possibility to “clean” your disks if they were previously installed with VSAN or had partitions of different OS on it. You could also see my thought on going cheap on a homelab VSAN nodes with a Haswell low power node. As I was the part […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How-to delete partitions to prepare disks for VSAN

Easily upgrade ESXi 5.x to the latest ESXi 6.0 via CLI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2016

I have received quite a few demands for how to update standalone ESXi hosts via the command line. For most people it’s probably no brainer, but for new folks this might not be so obvious. So for those of you who are looking to update ESXi 5.x to the latest release which is the ESXi […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: Easily upgrade ESXi 5.x to the latest ESXi 5.5 Update 1 via CLI

VMware Hands-on Labs BackStage Pass Webinars – not to miss!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

There is a lot of webinars out there, but some of them might be more interesting than others. There is a new initiative from VMware Hands On Lab. Possibility for admins to register for a monthly session where a product will be presented and at the same time you’ll be able to ask questions and […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Hands-On Labs

Zentyal 3.4 Community Edition Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 20, 2014

Zentyal 3.4 community edition (Free)

Zentyal Server is one of those Linux distributions which provides very well built-in front end management, a Webmin like GUI. They have just released Zentyal 3.4 Community Edition. I have blogged already about Zentyal in my post here where I tested also installation on the top of usual Ubuntu server distribution, which was also possible. But […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Zentyal 3.4 Community Edition

How-to unlock the VMware VCSA root password?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 23, 2020

Update: Check the latest post where I teach you How to reset root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, and, there is also a video in this post. VCSA has a default 90 days root password policy. You can change this behavior or you can manage the password policy through AD if VCSA is integrated with […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: unlock the VMware VCSA root password

Configuration of a 16 node Virtual SAN cluster with the vSphere Distributed Switch – Video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 18, 2014

There is new video at VMware showing the configuration of a 16 node Virtual SAN cluster with vDS (vSphere distributed switch). If you have missed the VSAN announcement and not using VDS so far because of the enterprise plus entry ticket, you might read the announce from VSAN launch which says that VSAN has the VDS option in. […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Configuration of a 16 node Virtual SAN cluster

VMware vSphere 5.5 Fast Track Training Available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

The latest Fast Track training is available from VMware Education. It’s 5 day’s in depth training which availability has been announced last week by VMware. It’s one of the possible trainings which is necessary to become a VCP certified – VMware Certified Professional. You can find the required (or) recommended trainings on each of the links […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSphere 5.5 Fast Track Training

PowerCLI 5.5 R2 Released – Download your free copy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 12, 2019

Alan Renouf has announced through the PowerCLI blog the news few days back when the main news about VSAN and vSphere 5.5 U1 release. There is a new release of PowerCLI 5.5 R2 (Build 1649237 is VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 Release 2) which brings many new support for different products and vSphere. The latest PowerCLI 5.5 […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: PowerCLI 5.5 R2 Released

VMware VSAN Datastores supported on Horizon View 5.3.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

With the GA release of VMware VSAN, the latest update of Horizon View 5.3.1 now supports VSAN datastores as location of Horizon View desktops (full and linked-clones). There is no other enhancements or new features in Horizon View 5.3.1, just the VSAN support, which allows running VDI workflows on VSAN clusters. By default VSAN does […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization

VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) 1.0 GA – FAQ, Pricing and Design Options

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

As I already reported today, VMware has released vSphere 5.5 Update 1 which introduced VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). Some folks call it version 1.0 of VSAN, but it’s VSAN, it’s GA product and it scales up to 32 nodes. In this post I’ll try to look first at the pricing options which had been unveiled […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

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