Zentyal is a lightweight Remote web based GUI for Ubuntu servers. The company in addition to a paid version with 3 years of suppor, also has a free community version, with limited support only (forums). The release 3.2 is in preparation, will be out in september and focuses on Samba 4.0 integration. The main features […]
How-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server
This article will show you in few steps how-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server. It’s not the best VMware practice for production environments, but excellent for home labbing and maybe for clients with single ESXi host, where there isn’t any other physical server left which could assure an NTP service. The ESXi host […]
How to install VIB on VMware ESXi
Often I get asked what’s VIB and How to install VIB in VMware ESXi. VIB packages are update packages, drivers or other third party updates to ESXi which installs by using VMware Update Manager (VUM) or directly through the local CLI. The easiest way to patch ESXi free (without update manager) is through the local CLI. […]
VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Installation of Horizon View Connection Server
This is hands on lab video about how to install VMware Horizon View 5.2 Connection server. It’s a step-by-step video, which is another video that comes from a Free video serie produced by VMware. You’ll learn also how-to: Setup an Event Database (New) Enter a Syslog destination (New) from within the View Administrator console Horizon View 5.2 […]
Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012 – ODBC and vCenter components install (Part 2)
In the first part we successfully installed SQL Server, and created vCenter, VMware update manager and SSO databases. In this part we will create the DSNs and Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012, together with all the different components. This post is a part of multipost, where we do an Install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012, with […]
Install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012 – SQL Setup (Part 1)
Since vSphere 5.1 U1 it’s possible to install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012. Also a Microsoft SQL 2012 is supported as an external database. The software requirements of the latest vSphere has been outlined in my post which discuss the new features of VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1. Since the vSphere 5.1, the architecture of […]
VMware Certificate Automation Tool – How to use
VMware Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 which has been released few days back (my post: vCenter certificate automation tool 1.0) enables to automate (or rather semi-automate) the management of SSL certificates of different vCenter components. This tool is the only tool that automates the job and which is supported by VMware. Certificates are real pain, and […]
Fix 3 Warning Messages when deploying ESXi hosts in a lab
Recently deploying another ESXi host which does shared storage for the whole lab at the same time pointed out the usual warning messages. Most of you usually know all of them, but for the new people which are trying to learn, this post might be useful. When working in my lab, installing ESXi hosts which runs […]
Homelab Nexenta on ESXi – as a VM
Homelab Nexenta on ESXi. In the article I wrote few days back I was building a NAS box for my lab and was going to use it not only as a pure storage box, but also as an ESXi host. At the same time I was going to explore the ZFS possibilities with L2ARC and ZIL […]
Building NAS Box With SoftNAS
I’ve recently bought some parts to replace my old NAS build to get more power and more IOPS. This NAS box will be used for lab only. I also recovered some parts from the old box, but added some SSD’s. The Mini-NAS will be used also as an ESXi box. While the Mini-ITX boards are […]
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