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vMA + Splunk = Syslog Awesomeness

By Andy | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

How to install and configure SplunK as a destination for ESXi log files

How to manage vMA logs with Splunk This is a guest post by Andy Grant. Managing syslog messages in nearly any size of environment can be daunting.  Aside from the effort configuring every client to send syslog messages to your target server, searching for relevant data can be just as challenging.  There are many articles online […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Splunk, syslog messages, VMware vMA

VMware HA Slot sizes

By Andy | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

VMware HA Slot Sizes

HA Slot sizes – how do we get those numbers from vCenter? Info: This is a guest post by Andy Grant. He lives and works in Canada. Andy was a real help recently when I tried to configure a Cisco switch. You can read about my switch adventures here. This post is an extension of […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to calculate slot sizes VMware HA, VMware HA, VMware HA Admission Control, VMware HA Slot sizes

My switch adventures

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 16, 2019

Cisco/Linksys SRW 2008 with the possibility to put it in Layer 3 mode

How misleading Model numbers can make you choose the wrong switch. This is a real life story. This adventure happened to me few weeks ago and I thought that an article on my blog could interest other people willing to build a VMware vSphere Home lab. I’m like you guys, I’m reading my fellow blogger’s […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Cisco SRW 2008, Linksys SRW 2008

How to configure vMA as a destination of ESXi log files

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

ESXi 4.1 does not store log files locally. How to configure vMA as a destination of ESXi log files. It’s recommended to configure syslog and get the log files persistent. You have to configure ESXi to send the logs somewhere, because they are not stored locally. Because if you need to reboot your ESXi host, the logs […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: configuring vMA as a syslog server, How to configure vMA as a destination of ESXi log files, how to configure vma as a destination of syslog, syslog with vMA

How to backup ESXi configuration

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

How-to backup ESXi4.1 configuration

One of those questions you might be asking yourself is the one on How to backup ESXi configuration. You might be saying why backup if the re-installation of an ESXi takes just few minutes, but wait. There is not only the installation of ESXi, but there are all the configuration files concerning virtual switches and […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: backup and restore ESXi 4.1 configuration files, ESXi 4.1 configuration backup, How to backup ESXi 4.1 configuration files

Installation Openfiler 2.99 and configuring NFS share

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Installation of Openfiler 2.99 for my VMware vSphere Lab

Today’s article I’ll show you the Installation and configuration of the latest Openfiler. In fact, few days ago, a new build – 2.99 has been released. This is after very long period where no updates to Openfiler were made. I did again choose NFS as an access protocol, since in my earlier post with FreeNAS […]

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| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: connect Openfiler NFS share ESX, ESX Openfiler, NFS Openfiler VMware ESX, Openfiler nfs

Can’t access via SSH After upgrade to ESX 4.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

You might experience this issue after upgrading to ESX 4.1. But, fortunately there is plenty of information on the web, where you can find the answers how to easily re-enable SSH. One of those places are VMware KB. The KB explaining what to do when you’re in situation like this. After the upgrade, only the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Service Console SSH access, SSH root ESX 4.1, upgrade to ESX 4.1 SSH

My ESXi 4 Whitebox

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 23, 2016

My One (at the moment) ESXi 4.1 whitebox runs with some SATA and SSD drives. UPDATE: You can access directly my ESXi Homelab Page Here. I’m preparing a series of articles about the evolution of my homelab, but I just realized that I haven’t blogged about my actual setup. I evolved with my home lab […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4.1 whitebox, ESXi Whitebox, Vladan.fr

20% and 25 % Discount on VMware Workstation and Fusion 3.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 31, 2017

You can get 20% discount for VMware Workstation and 25% discount for VMware Fusion 3.1 by using coupon codes below. Please note that the codes might not be active when I publish this post. In this case, come back later (or the next day). Enjoy… Save 20% on VMware Workstation 7.1! Offer Expires: 1st of […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Coupon Code VMware Fusion, VMware fusion promo

New product from Xangati called VDI dashboard

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 4, 2018

Xangati VDI dashboard has been released. Real time monitoring with Xangati for ESX gives you the drill down possibility to look and find which part of your virtual infrastructure is suffering from slowdowns and for which reason. Xangati now goes even further and announcing a new product called Xangati VDI dashboard. As you can see […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Xangati for VDI, Xangati VDI dashboard

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