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 […]
Free Clipboard manager called Remembr – Friday Freebie
Today we’ll have a look at this is a very lightweight Freeware called Remembr which allows keeping more than one item in your clipboard – it’s Free Clipboard Manager. That’s the always problematic when you can only keep single item in the clipboard that next time you copy some text you actually overwrite (and loose) […]
Virtual Router for Windows – Free for W8, W7 or W2008 R2
This free software allows you to share your internet connection on your laptop. Nothing really exciting, right? But it can be useful when you are in a hotel where the Wifi connections are limited to single device. Most hotels use free wifi signal with behind a NoCat or other caption portals, so you can use […]
Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – X10SRH-CLN4F – Part 2
In the previous part I’ve detailed the specs of this board, talked a bit about the 2011-3 CPU architecture and possibilities, but also touched a bit on IPMI management. Since it’s something new in my homelab as previous builds were always done from consumer (desktop) boards I thought that it might be a good idea to […]
ESXi Offline Bundle Download – To Upgrade ESXi
Well, this post isn’t ready about where to download this file but rather how to make your ESXi to download it….ESXi offline bundle file allows upgrade ESXi 5.x to 6.0 with a single line of code (or rather two..) via SSH – check my post on it here. You need to download the ESXi Offline Bundle for […]
Nested ESXi 6 in a Lab
I was playing a lot with Nested ESXi 6 in a lab recently. But it does not matter, we can do quite a lot with a 64 Gigs of RAM and bunch of SSDs… What’s new in this release is the fact that VM tools are installed by default so the nested ESXi behaves like […]
How to Tag SSD as Capacity Tier in VSAN 6
This article will show few commands which are necessary when you want to tag flash device used in VSAN 6 All-Flash configuration as a capacity tier. For now it’s manual process via CLI but GUI utility shall be available soon too. As you know VMware VSAN 6.0 allows configuration of Spinning disks + SSD OR […]
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