This post follows on from my previous one, where I covered deploying the vRO appliance, along with some initial configuration tasks. Picking up where I left off, the next task…

Following on from my recent posts on deploying vRA and IaaS, this post will cover deploying and configuring the vRealize Orchestrator appliance. Due to resources in my lab environment I…

This post follows on from deploying the vRA appliance. Here, I’ll be looking at deploying the IaaS components. I’ll be using the minimal deployment model, which will install all the…

This post is intended to cover the VCP6-CMA objective around installing and upgrading the vRealize components. When deploying vRA its recommended to deploy onto a vSphere dedicated management cluster, with…

I recently wrote about deploying the Cisco n1000v switch in a vSphere 5.5 environment. That post covered the initial deployment and configuration tasks. This post picks up where I left…

In this post I will cover how to deploy the Cisco n1000v switch on vSphere 5.5 – including the initial deployment of the switch appliance, some initial configuration, followed by…

This post is a bit of a departure from the usual topics covered on this site, but there’s a good reason, as I’m currently studying to renew my Cisco ‘CCNP’…

As the title suggests, this post will take a look at configuring AAA on Cisco switches, which is another of the CCNP Switch objectives. To start off, what is AAA?…

This post follows on from my recent posts on configuring highly available Platform Services Controllers. By the end of my previous post on this, I had deployed two platform services…

I wanted to have a look at the latest build of Citrix XenServer – so thought I’d do a post on the upgrade process. I’m currently running XenServer 6.0.2, and…