Installing the vSphere 5 Auto Deploy Server
The vSphere Auto Deploy Server is user for provisioning ESXi hosts. It uses a PXE boot service combined with vSphere host profiles to provision and customize hosts. It is a…
The vSphere Auto Deploy Server is user for provisioning ESXi hosts. It uses a PXE boot service combined with vSphere host profiles to provision and customize hosts. It is a…
In order to install PowerCLI you need to have a supported version of .Net installed, a supported OS and a supported version of Powershell installed. You can read the release…
Using the ESXCLI interface in ESXi 5 allows you to manage many host operations, and can be very useful in troubleshooting situations. All the ESXCLI commands use the same structure.…
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager is a component that enables support for heterogeneous hypervisors in VMware vCenter Server. You can check out the release notes here. I’ve recently installed it in…
LUN masking can be used to block a hosts access to a storage device or to prevent an ESXi host from using a particular storage path. This can be useful…
VLANs use the 802.1Q standard to tag traffic as associated with a particular VLAN. There are three main ways of using VLANs with vSphere: Virtual guest tagging (VGT) – requires…
Profile Driven Storage is a feature that allows you to ‘describe’ storage capabilities such as capacity, performance, replication etc. This is basically ‘tagging’ storage/datastores with certain characteristics, either supplied by…
As with any other virtual machine resources, it is important to pay close attention to virtual machine storage requirements. Virtualisation brings a lot of benefits when it comes to storage…
If there’s one thing that’s apparent when supporting vSphere environments, its that it’s never good news when a datastore has ran out of space. This article will look at how…
On occasion there is a need to tag SSD devices as such so that they are properly identified by your hosts and by vCenter. We can start by looking at…
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