Another free Software Defined storage will be available soon. This time it’s EMC’s ScaleIO Software! The news came from (big) Virtual Geek’s blog, and you certainly know the person behind – Chad Sakac. I’m not an EMC person and I’m not familiar with the solution, but I’m most likely interested in a hyper-converged software solution that […]
Mount VMFS Datastore – via GUI or via CLI [Guide]
Mount VMFS Datastore manually is sometimes necessary when working with DR plans. A volume that isn’t automatically mounted on the other side has to be mounted manually. Normaly SRM takes care of it. Also, sometimes when an existing VMFS volume is still present we have an option to keep an existing signature or choose to resignature. […]
New Upcoming features from Veeam Management Pack v8 for System Center Operations Manager
The Veeam Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager is curently in pre-beta stage, but I was able to assist a presentation from Veeam showing upcoming features that will be packed in. Note that the management pack will also brings new support for VMware vSphere 6.0 environments as well. The admin will be able to […]
Atlantis Computing Launching All-Flash Hardware Appliance with up to 90% Lower cost
Atlantis Computing is one of the new actors of hyper-converged systems. If you don’t know Atlantis you might want to check one of my previous posts here or here as their offering I’m talking today is basically an extension on what they do at the software side. Their software product is called Atlantis USX and I briefly […]
Veeam FastSCP Free for Microsoft Azure
Veeam has released a new free tool called FastSCP for Microsoft Azure. As you can probably imagine this free utility has something to do with Microsoft Azure, but in this post I’ll details some of the specifications and look-and-feel. But first what’s this tool is destined for? Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure is meant to […]
Configure vCenter Server After Install – Lab Time
vCenter server installation got really simple in vSphere 6, but the config isn’t that evident if you’re new to virtualization and VMware. In this post I’ll do a walk-through on the configuration steps of vCenter. It does not matter if you have deployed vCenter server on Windows or if you have deployed vCenter server appliance […]
ESXi 6.0 Downgrade Options – lab time
If you’re new to VMware or still learning, gaining experience this post might be your interest as I’ll be talking about ESXi 6.0 downgrade options but also about the possibility to downgrade VMware infrastructure as a whole. It’s not something that cannot be done, but some preparations must be done previously in order to be able to […]
Patch VMware vCenter Server (VCSA)
In this guide you’ll learn how-to patch VMware vCenter Server. Since there has been few changes since the vCenter Server 5.5, now in the vCenter server 6 the things works little bit differently. Previous version of VMware vCenter server appliance has had a UI which if you remember was accessible through a port 5480, but […]
Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – Upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F
As you know my lab got an addition this year, the Supermicro’s Single CPU board a X10SRH-CLN4F model. In this post, we will be upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F. It is a board with four 1-Gigs Intel NICs, IPMI, and lots of other features which I previously missed on consumer based boards. It’s […]
VMware Cloud-Native Applications: Lightwave, Photon and more…
VMware Cloud-Native Applications is new model of application distribution across nodes in clustered environment. Today VMware is announcing Cloud-Native applications based on several projects based on open source building blocks for containerized applications. Projects which are Open source and which will in the future allows easier deployment, management and securing of infrastructures which are becoming more […]
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