It’s recommended by VMware to have a persistent scratch location for VMkernel logs in case that ESXi is installed on USB stick or SD card (1Gb is minimum size). ESXi scratch partition, for those particular cases, resides in memory – in RAM disk, which is limited in size. The size is only 512 Mb, which is taken […]
Nutanix Distributed File System – the key of the “No SAN” solution
During VMworld 2012 in Barcelona I had the chance to see the Nutanix hardware and technology. At first, it looks like there is nothing really spectacular. 2U rack server with Fusion-IO card, 2 CPU system and lots of memory, all in one block. It’s really when you take a closer look at the distributed architecture inspired […]
Horizon View 5.2 HTML 5 Access by using VMware Blast – My HD Video
I’ve been testing the View 5.2 HTML 5 Access which is possible thanks to VMware Blast component. I was able to access the View 5.2 desktops through a web browser only. My laptop has Windows 7 installed as a system, but you can use any other device or OS with HTML 5 compatible browser to do […]
VMware Horizon Architecture – Deep Dive
The presentation I was able to assist, on the VMware Horizon Workspace you could already read quite a lot of informations on the different parts of the suite and different technologies integrated into that suite. If not, read the article here – VMware Horizon Workspace announced. While this was a detailed look at the individual […]
Top Virtualization Blog 2013
Top Virtualization 2013 voting for 2013 just started. The event is organized every year by Eric Siebert from vSphere-land.com. My blog – ESX Virtualization is an Independent source of daily virtualization content. I’m writing mostly oriented for SMBs with my preference for VMware virtualization and vSphere. I post how-to articles to help other admins, and also other news […]
VCP-Cloud Certification Exam Released (VCPC510)
VMware has released the VCP-Cloud certification exam. This exam enables you to take different path depending if you’re already VCP5 or not. In fact I have already detailed that in my post here – New Vmware Certification Roadmap. Path 1: You’re VCP5 – so you can pass the VCP-IaaS exam (link) and you’re certified VCP-Cloud. You became certified […]
3 Free Tools – Idera Server Backup Free Edition plus 2 more tools
Idera has announced 3 Free tools for IT administrators. Three tools that Windnows and SQL admins will certainly appreciate. Server Backup Free edition, SQL backup status reporter and SQL Permission Extractor. Those tools are freely available at Idera’s website. Read the details below. Idera Server Backup Free Edition – The new Idera Server Backup Free is a full-featured […]
PowerCLI 5.1.0 Release 2 has been released
PowerCLI 5.1.0 Release 2 is out. This new release of PowerCLI 5.1.0 Release 2 brings new cmdlets for VMware Distributed Switches. The latest release is available in two different versions: PowerCLI 5.10 PowerCLI 5.1.0 for Tenants As you probably guessed, the latter one is destined for vCloud Director 5.1. There are 14 new cmdlets for […]
HA agent on the host failed – what means the different possible messages?
It’s been long time since I wanted to write for myself the different possible states of HA agent messages, when HA agent on the host failed. So If you find it elsewhere, don’t worry, it’s possible as there are many VMware resources out there with many competent folks. For my own study purposes I need […]
Nested vSphere Lab – ideas?
Nested vSphere Lab concept is getting more and more popular than physical lab with a couple of whiteboxes and shared storage. In my usual quest for best vSphere homelab I was recently thinking of different solutions. As always, get the best possible price/performance/usability scenario. Currently in my lab I’m running 2 whiteboxes with vSphere 5.1 installed […]
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