I recently got a hand on a new book published by PACKT publishing called VMware vSphere Resource Management Essentials by Jonathan Frappier. This book is up to date guide for VMware administrators willing to start learning VMware technology from the ground up. Jonathan Frappier is an experienced IT professional who holds an advanced VMware certifications like […]
VMware vCenter Log Insight 2.0 – faster with machine learning capabilities
VMware has announced a new version of VMware vCenter Log Insight 2.0. More robust and faster, with speedier log analysis time up to 80 %, and overall speed resolution times up to 50 percent. Fully HTML5 based Web UI. The product also adds clustering approach where several instances of vCenter Log Insight configured in cluster […]
My first look on VMware VSAN observer
After my recent installation of VSAN cluster I wanted to get some more deep information about what’s under the hood as vSphere web client itself does not give you much insights. I also wanted to see if the installation and configuration VSAN Observer performance and statistic tool is about. I already saw some posts about […]
Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware – book to have
If you’re enterprise admin and running VMware vSphere in your company, you might be interested in following book by VMware press – Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right. This book written by Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak and Michael Webster is currently in pre-order and the pre-order price allows you to save 19% of […]
By default VSAN does not show any VM storage policies – How to create them
When I finally accomplished my “homebrewed” VSAN cluster by checking “activate VSAN” check box and manually associated the locally attached disk drives into the disk groups, I thought that’s it, VSAN is up and running. True, but after migrating few VMs to the newly created VSAN datastore I thought hey, there should be some storage […]
Web Commander 3.0 for VMware
VMware free fling utility called Web Commander 3.0 has been recently updated. The default UI presents objects, which are PowerCLI/PowerShell objects for interacting with AD, Horizon View Broker, Guest VMs and (or) vSphere actions like add/remove/start/stop for VMs. Also you can take snapshots or rename VMs. Web Commander is a web based interface to provide […]
Which Tool to use for cloning ESXi on USB stick
I was seeking the other day for an utility which would allow me to create an exact copy of an USB key with VMware ESXi installed. To clone ESXi installed on USB stick to another USB. I looked through the internet and tried a freeware utility that did not work (ImageUSB), but then stumbled across Clonezilla which […]
StarWind® Virtual SAN™ is available
Starwind Software has a new version of their flagship software – StarWind® Virtual SAN™ V8. The product is available for both virtualization platforms. VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V. I already blogged about the features that are present in this version, but I quickly recap: Massive Scale-Out storage architecture Creates fault tolerant shared storage with unlimited number […]
VMware vSphere Performance – New Book
New book has just been published – VMware vSphere Performance. The authors are well known in VMware virtualization communities – Matt Liebowitz, Christopher Kusek, Rynardt Spies. I looked into the content on Amazon. A test lab design is there. How and why to design a test lab and which tools to use for capacity planning, […]
My VSAN journey – all done!
Another VSAN homelab is born! After waiting some time for more SSDs, Infiniband cables and Perc H310 storage controller cards from eBay, now when all the pieces has arrived I’m able to put everything together and run my VMware VSAN cluster. I expanded my older hosts with internal storage (previously there was a shared storage […]
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