This free software allows you to share your internet connection on your laptop. Nothing really exciting, right? But it can be useful when you are in a hotel where the Wifi connections are limited to single device. Most hotels use free wifi signal with behind a NoCat or other caption portals, so you can use […]
Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – X10SRH-CLN4F – Part 2
In the previous part I’ve detailed the specs of this board, talked a bit about the 2011-3 CPU architecture and possibilities, but also touched a bit on IPMI management. Since it’s something new in my homelab as previous builds were always done from consumer (desktop) boards I thought that it might be a good idea to […]
ESXi Offline Bundle Download – To Upgrade ESXi
Well, this post isn’t ready about where to download this file but rather how to make your ESXi to download it….ESXi offline bundle file allows upgrade ESXi 5.x to 6.0 with a single line of code (or rather two..) via SSH – check my post on it here. You need to download the ESXi Offline Bundle for […]
Nested ESXi 6 in a Lab
I was playing a lot with Nested ESXi 6 in a lab recently. But it does not matter, we can do quite a lot with a 64 Gigs of RAM and bunch of SSDs… What’s new in this release is the fact that VM tools are installed by default so the nested ESXi behaves like […]
How to Tag SSD as Capacity Tier in VSAN 6
This article will show few commands which are necessary when you want to tag flash device used in VSAN 6 All-Flash configuration as a capacity tier. For now it’s manual process via CLI but GUI utility shall be available soon too. As you know VMware VSAN 6.0 allows configuration of Spinning disks + SSD OR […]
VCP 6 Exam Available – What’s Your Options?
VMware has finally released a VCP 6 Certification Exam. Still in beta for now and there is also a new vSphere 6 Foundation Beta exam. We’ll see the details in this post. The new exam was announced by VMware few days back and we can see that new candidates will now need to take two […]
vSphere 6 Download – With a Free App Called VMware Software Manager
There is an new free app which allows vSphere 6 download (but also vSphere 5.x). This app is called VMware Software Manager and it allows downloading VMware suite products withing a web based UI. in its first release the product does not support all VMware products download, but only part of them, starting vSphere 5.1, going […]
vSphere 6 – How To Backup vCenter 6 vPostgres Database On Windows
VMware vSphere 6 release brought more robust vPostgres Database which gets installed by default when installing on Windows Server. For users willing to install the Windows version of vCenter Server 6 VMware has prepared a script which can be used to backup/restore the vPostgres Database. So in this post I’ll walk you through: vSphere 6 – How […]
How-To Get the Best Performance On VSAN Cluster – Technical PDF
There is new paper called VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Performance: Scalability and Best Practices, which discuses How-To Get the Best Performance On VSAN Cluster. The Authors are Amitabha Banerjee (staff engineer), Lenin Singaravelu ( senior staff engineer) and Julie Brodeur who works as senior technical writer in the Performance Engineering group at VMware. Paper which has 23 pages. […]
VMware vSphere Update Manager 6.0 (VUM) – Lab time
After our successful upgrade of our vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) to vCenter 6.0 and ESXi host to ESXi 6.0, we need to install an VMware vSphere update manager 6.0 (VUM) on a Windows. This is the only Windows Server requirements for VMware vSphere 6. (except surely a Domain controller…). The installer needs a Windows VM (or physical system) and also […]
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