Since several years of my IT career every time I decide to expand my lab is to build a new ESXi host or a box which does shared storage for my lab. So it means that I was always left with my laptop to do all the other work. The Samsung laptop I use is […]
Good Read – VSAN Sizing Guide For Horizon View VDI
As always after a new technology release there are some good papers from VMware which slowly make their apparition. Few days back I reported about a paper discussing resynchronization and rebalance operations in VSAN cluster. Today the latest and newest technology from VMware is certainly Hot – VMware VSAN. New paper is available which is a VSAN […]
VMware Log Insight [V2.0] Fundamentals Free Training
There is a new VMware Log Insight [V2.0] Fundamentals Free Training available online. The training is 90 min long and gives you a good start for getting your hands on VMware Log Insight product which has been recently updated. The Log Insight 2.0 has been detailed with all its features in my post here. The LogInsight […]
How-to use Veeam Backup NFS used for storing ISOs in your VMware vSphere Infrastructure
If you’re using only block storage in your organization and NFS isn’t your your choice, you might possibly store your Installation ISOs and other files on one of your iSCSI datastore. This always works, but it’s certainly cheaper to store such a files on other than high-end 15000 SAS disks placed in probably very expensive SAN which […]
Quick way to recover POP e-mail passwords with Mail Password Decryptor
As an IT consultant there is often a situation where you need to recover POP password for a user who forgot it. Users are often having several POP e-mail accounts configured, whether is for work or not. And it’s usually not your responsibility if they are allowed or not. There is a quick way to […]
New Book – Essential Virtual SAN
Cormac Hogan (@cormacjhogan) and Duncan Epping (@duncanyb) are the authors of new book which has been released recently. Ben Fathi (CTO of VMware) and Charles Fan (SVP of VMware R&D) did wrote a foreword. By reading the foreword I learned that VSAN as a product was practically ready in June 2013, to be part of the […]
How-to Flash Dell Perc H310 with IT Firmware To Change Queue Depth from 25 to 600
Now, at first. This it totally unsupported by VMware or Dell, even if the firmware I’m flashing the card with is from Dell’s website. To tell you the whole story you should read My VSAN Journey and understand how the setup in my lab is built and why I’m doing this. I’m basically trying to […]
VMware VSAN Resynchronization and Rebalance Operations – New PDF
There is new PDF from VMware targeted for VSAN users, architects and IT admins. Recent change in VMware HCL concerning the queue depth of storage adapters (now there are only the ones with queue depth 256 and higher – see the ones are concerned in this VMware KB ) brought more questions concerning availability and […]
VMware Compliance Checker Utility – Did You Try?
This product is a free download from VMware Website and can check your existing installation of VMware vSphere against the VMware vSphere Hardening Guidelines. Can check vSphere environment since 4.0 up to 5.5, where up to 5 ESXi hosts is checked with single pass. The results shows from within the tool but can get printed, […]
VMware ESXi S.M.A.R.T Health Monitoring
With Flash storage around gaining popularity, it might be interesting to see not only if the performance is what’s should be but also the health of disks whether the’re magnetic or Flash drives. I was looking on checking somehow the S.M.A.R.T values. There are two ways to check it on VMware ESXi, and it can be […]
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