When configuring VMware High Availability (HA) cluster, you have the possibility to check as a secondary communication channel a datastore (or several ones), during the configuration wizard. VMware Datastore Hearbeating provides an additional option for determining if host is in failed state or not. Before vSphere 5.0 era, in vSphere 4.1, if host had a hardware […]
Free video – Configuring Dynamic Memory in Hyper-V 2012
A free video from new Training from Trainsignal, which shows you what is dynamic memory in Hyper-V 2012, and how to configure this feature. David Davis is an instructor and he just created new training for recently released Microsoft’s Hyper-V 2012. This new training called Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V New Features Training – and will […]
Upgrading vCenter Server? Use the free VMware Tool called vCenter Pre-Upgrade Checker
If you’re planning, or upgrading vCenter server, you might want to know that there is a free tool provided by VMware, which enables you to check the DB before running the installer. The VMware vCenter Pre-Upgrade Checker not only detects problems, but also miss-configuration and can avoid performance problems after the upgrade. The tool produces […]
How to find objects in vSphere Web client – the fastest way
The New vSphere Web client might not be the way that many admins use to do things in vSphere. In fact it’s been very very long time we have been all working through the vSphere Windows client, so the change to the vSphere Web client aren’t obvious. And so like many others I keep doing […]
Second Revolution of Flash storage – NGFF SATA
Everybody knows SATA interface, right. SATA II (the older one) and the SATA III, the newer one. In the portable computer market there is also mSATA format of SSD drives available. In my laptop that I’m currently using, there is one mSATA with capacity of 128Gb. The mSATA format is small, but in a near […]
How-to install vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) and possibly save on Microsoft’s licensing
VMware vCenter Server is also available as vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). It is a linux appliance – running on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES). It does not provide all the possibilities as if vCenter installed on Microsoft Windows Server system (lacks support for plugins, ex. Update Manager Plugin), but in smaller environments (the vCSA […]
How-to save resource pool tree before disabling DRS to be able to restore the hierarchy
In vSphere 5.1 is possible to retain configuration of the cluster’s resource tree. In previous releases, like the vSphere 5.0 this feature wasn’t available. The feature is available through the new vSphere Web client only. Web client which has been enhanced, improved, and brought wider functions, than the classic Windows vSphere client. Limitations: You can […]
How-to restrict VMs in VMware Workstation 9
VMware Workstation 9 has the possibility to restrict VMs. But How-to restrict VMs in VMware Workstation 9, and for which use cases? The first thing that I have in mind is learning. You might want to restrict a modification for VM which is preconfigured with specific hardware, and distribute this VM to the students. optionally, there is […]
VMware HA Cluster – how it works
When HA cluster is first created the VMs are configured with cluster default settings concerning the VM restart priority, host isolation response, and VM monitoring. But it can be changed, and you can specify specific behavior for each virtual machine. You can for example change this settings for some high priority VMs, like your domain controller VMs […]
vCOPS Training from TrainSignal Released – by Jason Nash and Joe Kelly
New vCOPS training has been released by TrainSignal. As a teachers, Jason Nash and Joe Kelly. Both from Warrow. There is 18 learning lessons in this training course called VMware vCenter Operations Manager Implementation. You’ll learn all about the Install, configure, about the vCOPS architecture, licensing… The vCOPS essential edition is available together with the […]
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