The other day I was trying VMware Workstation 10. I can’t remember if previous release was able to downgrade the virtual hardware, but the release 10 of Workstation can. I was actually trying to upload a Windows 2012 R2 server VM which I installed by using Workstation. This is something that has been around since […]
VCSA 5.5 Installation and configuration – Part 2
In the first part of the article we simply deployed the vCenter 5.5 VM from the OVF file – vCenter Server 5.5 Linux Appliance – Install/config . Fast and efficient. While we successfully integrated the VCSA to the Windows domain and we could see the computer account in the AD, we still had to log in with […]
VMware VSAN Video
VSAN is hot. It’s time to check my vSphere 5.5 page and see all the new features of vSphere 5.5 that have been unveiled during VMworld 2013. I have been playing with VMware VSAN (one of the pre-release builds) and in one of my earlier articles you could read about the VSAN configuration steps, but […]
vSphere Best Practices on iSCSI – Deployments and Design
Newly updated white paper by VMware is all about design and deployment of vSphere on iSCSI storage, which is the most used by smaller and bigger customers. It’s a document which has been updated last week called iSCSI Design Consideration and Deployment guide teaches the best practices for running VMware vSphere on iSCSI storage. Authored by Cormac […]
VMware vFlash Read Cache (vFRC) configuration steps
Upcoming VMware vSphere 5.5 which has been announced during VMworld 2013 brought another interesting feature called vFlash Read Cache (vFRC). A special formatting is applied to each SSD in each host, and each SSD device is formatted with new filesystem called VFFS (Virtual Flash File System). This VFFS spans the cluster and forms a flash resource which […]
VMware VSAN configuration steps with nested ESXi hypervisors
You can test VMware VSAN configuration even if you don’t have 3 physical servers. By simply creating 3 virtual ESXi hosts (VMs) which run on the same box it’s possible to test VSAN. Each virtual ESXi needs to have at least one spinning disk and one SSD disk. You can also use a computer running VMware Workstation. […]
Copy files from one cloud service provider to another – with Mover
There is a nice and convenient service called Mover.io which allows easily make transfer of your files from Dropbox to SkyDrive for example. But not only. There is quite a few connectors available through the service. It’s possible to transfer files and folders from many online storage service providers. This can be useful for individuals, […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 PDF Documents, Links and news
VMware vSphere 5.5 PDF summarizing vSphere 5.5 platform new features is available. It’s a just single page small PDF document showing principal features of vSphere 5.5. The vSphere 5.5 platform has been introduced during VMworld 2013, and it is about twice as big (concerning configuration maximums) compared to the previous release. This Quick Reference document is organized in […]
Splunk App for VMware 3.0 Released
Splunk App for VMware version 3.0 has been released and introduces different architecture for the data collection and also a new GUI based configuration which makes the configuration process easier. The Splunk App for VMware 3.0 reduced the amount of data which is pulled from vCenter and ESXi hosts. (ex. vCenter daily logs = 15Mb; […]
VMware Workstation 10 and VMware Fusion 6 Released!
Just released! VMware Workstation 10 and VMware Fusion 6. This is a major release of VMware Workstation since last year, which comes in after a two consecutive technology previews, where virtual hardware 10 and major enhancements like SSD pass through has been already revealed. Update: Workstation has been updated to 10.0.1 recently. There were some latest […]
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