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Troubleshooting vSphere Storage – New Book

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Mike Preston over at mwpreston.net has published new book on a topic that is one of the most crucial in today’s virtualization – a storage performance. The book’s name is Troubleshooting vSphere Storage. Performance of storage systems is always quite complex topic. IOPS, Throughput, latency… quite many metrics to follow, tweak and think of. The way that […]

VMware vSphere Host Profiles – options and troubleshooting

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In the first part we introduced VMware vSphere Host profiles and created a host profile from a reference host, then we added a new port group and applied the change to running host. We could see the change populate – live. That’s powerful, but we need more. Don’t forget that our final objective is to […]

VCAP Diary – VMware vSphere Host Profiles

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VMware vSphere Host profiles is one of the very powerful features which can ease much pain of reconfiguring manually options after re-installing a host. vSphere host profiles can apply to individual hosts or to a whole cluster, which can be especially useful when you deal with the same or similar hardware inside this cluster. Host […]

VMware vSphere AutoDeploy – Run some PowerCLI and you’re the Boss

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Nice title he? But before you want to call yourself a Boss, you need to (still) learn the ins and outs of Autodeploy. Motivated? GO! In previous post we have already done the first part – the Autodeploy configuration. Autodeploy uses rules. Those rules does the configuration when the ESXi image boots up. Those rules […]

VMware vSphere AutoDeploy – Install and configure

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VMware vSphere Autodeploy is another cool feature which is not so cool when you want to implement, because it needs some knowledge to setup and takes some time to get all the pieces work together. Yes it might seems complex and if you’re just a SMB it might not be your interest but stateless images […]

VCAP Diary – VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder

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VMware vSphere ESXi Image Builder hasn’t been covered yet on my blog. I think it’s time. Once you understand how to put all the bits and pieces (Image builder,  Host profiles and Autodeploy) together, than you can make your super homelab run even more “sexy” with autodeployed ESXi hosts – now even with VMware Tools for […]

How-to Build a custom ISO with VMware tools for Nested ESXi

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Yesterday’s post about VMware Tools for Nested ESXi hosts (a VIB – vSphere Installation Bundle) – which allows installing VMware tools in VM running nested ESXi is an exciting functionality for home labbers and people struggling to get more physical hosts to play with in the lab. The VMware Tools for Nested ESXi adds possibility to […]

A nugget – VMware tools for Nested ESXi

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During VMworld Barcelona the news about upcoming VMware tools for Nested ESXi first came out. And after a quick confirmation with @lamw while there that a new cool fling was born, it’s a good news for the whole virtualization community. For many of you that are using nested ESXi, for learning or demoing VMware solutions, the […]