Lately I was working on the redesign of my lab at home and I purchased a Cisco L3 capable switch. In my quest for a VMware vSphere homelab, I recently purchased my first Cisco switch. You could see it in my recent post called My switch adventures where I bought the wrong switch because of similarities […]
VMware SRM & HP P4000 VSA Intricacies
VMware SRM & HP P4000 VSA Intricacies This is a guest post by Andy Grant. I have a bad habit of standing up a solution in my home lab, only to tear it down shortly afterwards to play with something new. I have been using EMC’s UBER line of virtual storage appliances (VSAs) for my […]
vMA + Splunk = Syslog Awesomeness
How to manage vMA logs with Splunk This is a guest post by Andy Grant. Managing syslog messages in nearly any size of environment can be daunting. Aside from the effort configuring every client to send syslog messages to your target server, searching for relevant data can be just as challenging. There are many articles online […]
VMware HA Slot sizes
HA Slot sizes – how do we get those numbers from vCenter? Info: This is a guest post by Andy Grant. He lives and works in Canada. Andy was a real help recently when I tried to configure a Cisco switch. You can read about my switch adventures here. This post is an extension of […]
My switch adventures
How misleading Model numbers can make you choose the wrong switch. This is a real life story. This adventure happened to me few weeks ago and I thought that an article on my blog could interest other people willing to build a VMware vSphere Home lab. I’m like you guys, I’m reading my fellow blogger’s […]
How to configure vMA as a destination of ESXi log files
ESXi 4.1 does not store log files locally. How to configure vMA as a destination of ESXi log files. It’s recommended to configure syslog and get the log files persistent. You have to configure ESXi to send the logs somewhere, because they are not stored locally. Because if you need to reboot your ESXi host, the logs […]
How to backup ESXi configuration
One of those questions you might be asking yourself is the one on How to backup ESXi configuration. You might be saying why backup if the re-installation of an ESXi takes just few minutes, but wait. There is not only the installation of ESXi, but there are all the configuration files concerning virtual switches and […]
Installation Openfiler 2.99 and configuring NFS share
Today’s article I’ll show you the Installation and configuration of the latest Openfiler. In fact, few days ago, a new build – 2.99 has been released. This is after very long period where no updates to Openfiler were made. I did again choose NFS as an access protocol, since in my earlier post with FreeNAS […]
Can’t access via SSH After upgrade to ESX 4.1
You might experience this issue after upgrading to ESX 4.1. But, fortunately there is plenty of information on the web, where you can find the answers how to easily re-enable SSH. One of those places are VMware KB. The KB explaining what to do when you’re in situation like this. After the upgrade, only the […]
My ESXi 4 Whitebox
My One (at the moment) ESXi 4.1 whitebox runs with some SATA and SSD drives. UPDATE: You can access directly my ESXi Homelab Page Here. I’m preparing a series of articles about the evolution of my homelab, but I just realized that I haven’t blogged about my actual setup. I evolved with my home lab […]
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