Difficult to ignore the Intel’s latest CPU release. Intel codename Haswell. The K-series parts lack the support for transactional memory extensions and VT-d device virtualization included with standard Haswell CPUs, so obviously I’ve turned out to other than the K-series. If you are into overclocking, then the 4770K would probably be your choice. For my […]
Memory Overcommitment in The ESX server – deep dive and best practices. Good Read in VMware Technical Journal 2013!
Memory Overcommitment in The ESX server is just one of the chapters present in VMware Technical Journal, which went out few days ago. You’ll find the information about how memory overcommit works and which techniques are used, and also some best practices or how to avoid pitfalls. It’s a deep dive chapter. There are also some […]
VMware Tools Download From Online Repository
I got few questions recently concerning VMware Tools. Usually Installation of VMware tools is easy process. Few clicks in the vSphere client and you install the VMware tools automatically or interactively. There is a third supported way to install VMware tools. In case you want to do a manual install of VMware tools from within […]
Easy Install, clean Interface…vCenter Log Insight – New Product
A public beta product called vCenter Log Insight can be downloaded and tested. I’ve downloaded and installed this product in my lab. The install/configure takes at most 5 minutes of your time. The product currently in public beta, is going to be licensed per host, and you’ll need vCenter which is a central point where […]
VMware vCenter Orchestrator Overview Configuration
VMware vCenter orchestrator wasn’t used much in my lab. But by nature I’m curious guy, I wanted to give it a quick shot, as the automation of the workflows is something that VMware is pushing forward since quite a time already. The importance of orchestrator will get reinforced in future release as well and the […]
VMware Horizon View Connection Server SSL Certificate How-to
VMware Horizon View Connection Server SSL Certificate (auto-signed) isn’t valid and you find yourself with a nice error when you open the VMware view administration web console. It says that the certificate is untrusted and that you have to install a valid (not a self-signed) SSL on this server. So you’ll have have a valid certificate. […]
VMware vCenter 5.1U1a Released fixing SSO Multidomain Authentication bug
Latest release of VMware vCenter 5.1U1a has been released yesterday. This latest release comes up after several weeks only, because a fix was discovered just after the release of 5.1U1. A bug which affected users which were logging into vCenter Server using the vSphere Client with vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) in a multi-domain environment. Those […]
VCDX Boot Camp – New book by VMware Press
The holy grail of VMware certifications – VCDX. Who would not want to became VCDX? But not everyone can, because the knowledge and experience you need before trying to pass this ultimate VMware certification exam is just too demanding and only few hundreds people worldwide are actually VCDX certified. Before pretending for a VCDX, the […]
ESXi Maintenance Mode Via CLI How-to And Some More Commands
A short post to bookmark some CLI commands for putting a VMware ESXi host into a maintenance mode. In my lab, I’m running vCenter in a VM, and this VM runs out of a small local datastore. So I can’t simply vMotion this VM elsewhere to do a maintenance and patch using VMware Update Manager (VUM). When […]
VMware SSO Install – Single Sign On Server Installation Options
VMware SSO install, when done wrong or when architected the wrong way, can put your infrastructure into a fragile state where SSO can became the single point of failure (SPOF). Before introduction of SSO in vSphere 5.1, there was a vCenter considerations when it comes to resiliency and protection. With the introduction SSO it’s like an additional […]
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