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Configure your VI client

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This article is meant to be just informative for newcomers to virtualization under vSphere. I just wanted to point out this easy way to configure what do you need as an information when you fire-up your VI client. Whether you’re managing single host in a lab environment (my case…) or a cluster with more ESX(i) […]

vCloud Director Performance and Best practices guide

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vCloud Director Performance and best practices guide has been released. The PDF white paper has been released by VMware last week. What’s in it? There are several topics covered in the paper: Experimental Setup covering the setup used Sizing for Number of Cell Instances, tested with up to 12 cell instances with 10 fylly loaded […]

Starwind SAN 5.6 with Advanced GUI and more

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Starwind SAN Software has been updated to the version 5.6 Starwind SAN is not new for ESX Virtualization readers. I’ve done quite a few articles about Starwind when I was learning to pass my VCP certification exam. In case you don’t know Stawind SAN, you can have a look at my article – Starwind iSCSI […]

Latest VMmarks published by Fujitsu

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Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S6 with VMware ESX v4.1 / vCenter 4.1 VMmarks published. Score of 6.81 at 7 tiles. The news come from VMware Website where the results were published. I can tell that the RX 200 S6 has made some enormous progress since the previous models and it became the most sold model for […]

Unable to connect to the MKS: Failed to connect to the server (1010828) error message

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How to solve black screen and error message saying “Unable to connect to the MKS” I had this issue the other day when I was trying to connect to the vCenter at my lab at home and then open a console to one of my VMs. “Unable to connect to the MKS: Failed to connect […]

How and where to change default ports for communication with ESXi host if needed

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The title of the post says it all. If for whichever reason you need to change the default connection port for communication with ESX or ESXi i host, you might want to know where to go and how to modify it. And also which services (daemons) to restart. This post will teach how and where […]

VAAI support with Fujitsu Eternus Disk Storage Systems

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VAAI available for Eternus DX400 /DX8000. Support of vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) announced from Fujitsu. You can read the whole post here. The VAAI enhances the performances of Eternus Storage Systems. The latest firmware from Fujitsu is required for the plugin to function. The firmware and plugin are provided free of charge. VAAI […]

IP address is alreay assigned to another adapter.

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Error when assigning static IP adress to your NIC card. I’m sure that you’re already saw this message. The IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter Name of adapter. Name of adapter is hidden from the network and Dial-up Connections folder because it is not physically […]

How the snapshot consolidation works

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Consolidating snapshosts in vSphere 4.1 I stumbled in a nice article explaining the changes to the snapshot consolidation mechanism which was introduced in the vSphere U2. The article was posted in the VMware Support insider section here. The article is written by Simon Todd, who is a Tech Support Engineer in Cork, Ireland office. One […]