If you don’t own homelab or Powerfull PC, or you cannot break production environment (obviously in most cased you can’t) you have another option to prepare for your VCP exam. This offering is called VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] – Lab Connect allows to get 30 hours of preconfigured lab environment Online. The lab environment consists […]
Unitrends Entreprise Backup Free version offers to backup 8 VMs – with no time expiry
Unitrends Enterprise Backup has an offering which might interest very small shops running VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervizors in their environments. The company offers free edition of their backup software which allows to protect 8VMs in virtual environment running VMware vSphere (or standalone ESXi) or Microsoft Hyper-V. The backup product deploys as a virtual appliance for […]
VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 updated to match the latest vSphere 5.5
VMware has released recently the latest update to vCenter Support Assistant 5.5, which is a virtual appliance (650 Mb) allowing to configure. The product is free to download, but can only be used for clients on active SNS or for clients buying support per-incident. vCenter support shows as a vCenter plugin through vSphere web client and […]
Free VMware Log Insight Training Online by VMware Education
There is newly added a VMware Log Insight Training (3 modules), which teaches you some basics to get started with vCenter Log insight, a logging solution by VMware. vCenter log insight has the particularity to be able to be expanded with community packs and has can also be integrated to vCOPs. I have reported on […]
vFLOWer Toolkit – a solution that converts vCO packages into versionable source code (XML) and vice versa
Interesting solution for sharing vCenter Orchestrator Workflows has been developed by ByteLife. The solution can convert vCO packages into versionable source code in XML and back. Even if vCO is one of the less known products of VMware vSphere and even I’m not a vCO expert AT ALL, this solution has took my attention as […]
Best Practices for Virtualizing AD on VMware vSphere
Virtualizing business critical applications, like Microsoft Active Directory (AD) must be done right and with caution. Windows Server 2012 has introduced new feature called VM-Generation ID, which enables the underlying ESXi to expose a 128bit counter within the guest VM. This allows the VM to be aware that the VM has been restored from snapshot or […]
How to tag disk as SSD VMware esxi 5.x and 6.0
The vSphere 6.0 web client allows easier possibility. Through a GUI if you have vCenter installed. So How to Mark local disk as SSD disk ? Connect to your vCenter > Go to Hosts and clusters > Select a Host > Manage > Storage > Select disk which you want to tag as SSD. You can click to […]
New VCP Exam VCP550 based on vSphere 5.5 is available
Just to let you know that it’s now possible to get certified on vSphere 5.5. VMware has released new certification exam yesterday which allows to pass an exam based on vSphere 5.5. So the new certification exam VCP550, is based on VMware vSphere 5.5 but earns you still a VCP5-DCV certification only. The same certification […]
New Free VMworld Sessions are Online
VMworld TV has put on a new VMworld sessions freely available on YouTube. If you haven’t attended VMworld or if you have missed some of those sessions, you now have the chance to check them out. There is 11 of those sessions available. I see couple of good ones, for example already the first one […]
ESXi 5.x – Managing and troubleshooting NAS/NFS datastores via CLI
One of the topics to master for VCAP-DCA exam (but not only) is to handle some CLI commands which enables NFS management. Those commands can list existing connected NFS storage, Add new storage or delete NAS file system. Those commands are also useful when you troubleshoot your NFS storage or when your NFS server has […]
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