VMware vSphere 5.5 platfor introduced new power management technique to allow save power and manage more efficiently hosts with settings which allows saving energy via special settings in vSphere Host Power Management (HPM). The default HPM policy uses deep halt states (C-states) as an additional power saving model to the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling […]
My Experience From An Advanced VMware Certification Exam – VCAP5-DCA
Update: This exam has been passed now! Until few months back I haven’t think of taking any VCAPs. I wasn’t motivated and did not want to go through the stress, as I’m quite nervous when before any kind of exam. But then there was VMworld Barcelona and this incredible 75% discount so I tested my […]
VCAP-DCD Experience – a Pass!
This is was my second attempt to pass a VCAP-DCD exam and this time with success. After my first experience in Barcelona where I failed, this time I passed. I traveled with my spouse to sunny Lisbon. You might ask why Lisbon? The flight with EasyJet was cheap and we will take week of vacations […]
Troubleshooting vSphere Storage – New Book
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
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 […]
VMware vSphere AutoDeploy – Run some PowerCLI and you’re the Boss
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 […]
HyTrust Acquires HighCloud Security to add encryption and key management capabilities
HighCloud security has an offering which allows to encrypt VMware vSphere, vCD public or private based workloads. The technology will be able to protect data by encrypting data at rest, where HyTrust was offering up to now, a security and hardening of the whole vSphere infrastructure via policies which for example are used to setup a […]
How to quickly check ESXi logs from web browser
There are many ways to check ESXi logs. You can SSH to your host (if SSH enabled) and check the logs through Putty for example, or you can generate log bundle via your vSphere Windows C# client (Administration > Export system logs) to check them out after extracting those out from the zipped bundle. Logs […]
vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide Available – Free Download
New updated release of vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide – to match the latest VMware vSphere 5.5 – is out. This guide as in its previous releases gives you some good tips to secure your vSphere environments. As I reported already in the past on this guide – here is the vSphere 5.1 article, the format is […]
VMware vCenter Server 5.5.0a update available
VMware has released an update to vCenter Server 5.5.0a. Both versions, Windows based and also VCSA (Linux Appliance) based vCenter servers – vCenter server appliance are updated. There is no new features in the 5.5.0a version. It’s only maintenance release as it fixes some bugs which showed quickly after the initial release. While I don’t […]
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