I’m sure that everyone know this tool. But still I want to share me recent experience. You know that with the new hosts I got for my lab there is the Supermicro’s iPMI remote management, and I found myself too lazy after all. All you need to do to attach a GParted Live ISO, then […]
Homelab – Airflow Solar System
As you might already noticed, ESX Virtualization lab is located at Reunion Island – a tropical island with not only beautiful beach resorts, amazing trekking possibilities or a very active volcano, but also with local IT shops, local industry or institutions which need that their IT just works. And that’s our role – consultants, IT […]
Infinio Accelerator 2.0 Released
Infinio Accelerator 2.0 Released today. What is Infinio? It’s an unique caching solution that only needs some RAM from your hosts to create shared deduplicated caching pool which will accelerate your VMware vSphere environment. With such a cache in place, the storage requests does not need to go all the way down to your NAS, but it’s the […]
The Virtual Machine is Running in monitor mode that is incompatible for Fault Tolerance – How to Fix
When doing a testing in my lab today I had this error saying “The Virtual Machine is Running in monitor mode that is incompatible for Fault Tolerance” – when wanting to activate VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) on one of my test VMs. The test VM it was a Windows 2012 R2 VM and I was […]
VMturbo 5.2 Released with QoS Adherence for Applications
VMturbo has released new version of their flagship product – VMturbo Operations Manager 5.2. A very interesting feature has been added to this release – QoS for applications. The previous VMturbo release has brought Application Control Module (ACM) and in the 5.2 release a SQL and Oracle support has been added for ACM. So it […]
How-to Connect to vCenter 6 vPostgress Database with PgAdmin
vCenter Server 6.0 is using by default the internal vPostgress Database. If you chose this option during the installation over an SQL server installation you basically lose the possibility to manage this DB, unless you install some vPostgress management tool. One of those tools is PgAdmin and in this post we will take a look […]
What is Storage Spaces Direct? It’s a Software Based Storage by Microsoft
Another vendor who will jump into the hyper-converged wagon – Microsoft. Storage Spaces Direct is in preview in Windows server 2016 which is upcoming server software from Microsoft. Storage spaces direct has the same principle as VMware VSAN – leverages local disks of each host (DAS storage) in order to create a shared pool of clustered storage […]
VMware VSAN Health Check Plugin Released
There is a new plugin for VMware VSAN 6.0 which allows troubleshooting and monitoring of VSAN 6.0 installations and implementations. There are 2 versions of the plugin where the first one is for vCenter Server on Linux (VCSA) – this is an RPM file. And the second one is for Windows based vCenter server 6.0 – a […]
ScaleIO Free Download starting May 29th – from EMC
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. […]
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