Interesting solution for sharing vCenter Orchestrator Workflows has been developed by ByteLife. The solution can convert vCO packages into versionable source code in XML and back. Even if vCO is one of the less known products of VMware vSphere and even I’m not a vCO expert AT ALL, this solution has took my attention as […]
Best Practices for Virtualizing AD on VMware vSphere
Virtualizing business critical applications, like Microsoft Active Directory (AD) must be done right and with caution. Windows Server 2012 has introduced new feature called VM-Generation ID, which enables the underlying ESXi to expose a 128bit counter within the guest VM. This allows the VM to be aware that the VM has been restored from snapshot or […]
How to tag disk as SSD VMware esxi 5.x and 6.0
The vSphere 6.0 web client allows easier possibility. Through a GUI if you have vCenter installed. So How to Mark local disk as SSD disk ? Connect to your vCenter > Go to Hosts and clusters > Select a Host > Manage > Storage > Select disk which you want to tag as SSD. You can click to […]
New VCP Exam VCP550 based on vSphere 5.5 is available
Just to let you know that it’s now possible to get certified on vSphere 5.5. VMware has released new certification exam yesterday which allows to pass an exam based on vSphere 5.5. So the new certification exam VCP550, is based on VMware vSphere 5.5 but earns you still a VCP5-DCV certification only. The same certification […]
New Free VMworld Sessions are Online
VMworld TV has put on a new VMworld sessions freely available on YouTube. If you haven’t attended VMworld or if you have missed some of those sessions, you now have the chance to check them out. There is 11 of those sessions available. I see couple of good ones, for example already the first one […]
ESXi 5.x – Managing and troubleshooting NAS/NFS datastores via CLI
One of the topics to master for VCAP-DCA exam (but not only) is to handle some CLI commands which enables NFS management. Those commands can list existing connected NFS storage, Add new storage or delete NAS file system. Those commands are also useful when you troubleshoot your NFS storage or when your NFS server has […]
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 – what’s in
VMware has released few days back a vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 (vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 | Build 1473063). This update brings customization for Windows 8.1, Windows 2012 R2 and SLES 11 SP3 plus more. Also there has been multiple fixes released which might interest you or your clients if they run on 5.1. Update: […]
VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Driver Rollup 1 released
VMware has released new Driver rollup ISO image for VMware ESXi 5.5.0 few weeks back. There weren’t much news about this release so I thought is’s a good idea to point out to which usages this ISO is destined. This is an installable iso ISO which is suppose to be used for clean installations only so […]
Nakivo 3.9 with Dynamic Licensing, Multi-Tenancy and Self-Service
New release of Nakivo 3.9 is generally available as of today. They continue the development of features which brings more value to service providers (via Cloud service provider’s program and licensing) and which offers backup as a service (BaaS), replication as a service (RaaS) to their clients. The product is already compatible with latest vSphere 5.5 […]
Free VCP-DCV and VCAP-DCA Study Guides
To start with VMware certifications, the best way is to pass VCA (VMware certified Associate) – a new entry level VMware certification. Then the VCP and for some of you possibly VCAP exam. There are some excellent Free VCP-DCV and VCAP-DCA Study Guides. They’re written by Josh Cohen (@joshcoen) and Jason Langer (@jaslanger). I see those as a not-to-miss […]
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