It’s that time again, Eric Siebert from vSphere-Land.com runs a vote for the top VMware and Virtualisation blogs. As there are now over 300 blogs listed on the nominations page there are a lot of sites to choose from. The… Continue Reading
In a previous post I installed and configured the Synology Syslog server to allow me to stop me getting the below message on my hosts. The reason for the message is that I run my 3 ESXi hosts using SanDisk… Continue Reading
In this post we are going to configure the Synology Syslog server so that we can get rid of the message below that occurs because my servers use the SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB drives
In an earlier post I configured my Synology DS1513+ Storage server for iSCSI and enabled it for Multi-Pathing, in this post I will show you how to create and configure a vDS (vSphere Distributed Switch) for iSCSI use and how… Continue Reading
In the previous post we installed and configured access to vCenter 5.5, it’s great that we have vCenter installed but with no datacenter or Hosts configured we aren’t going to be doing too much with our new installation so what… Continue Reading
Exclusively for the virtualization community, Veeam raffles great prizes that will improve IT Pros daily working experience! Join the raffle and be fully equipped for 2014! Register now to get one of the following prizes: Tablet of… Continue Reading
The following post, the first in series of posts, details the installation and configuration of a Windows 2012R2 Enterprise CA to be used with a VMware Infrastructure Home Lab. It is assumed at this stage that you have a single… Continue Reading
As a precursor to installing vCenter 5.5 in my 2012R2 lab at home I needed to create the vCenter and VUM databases in SQL 2012 and make sure that everything was setup correctly before the vCenter installation. To make things… Continue Reading
So with the release of ESXi 5.5 I decided to follow my previous instructions and upgrade my hosts using the esxcli commands. 1. Place the Host into Maintenance Mode and ensure that there are no running VM’s on the host.… Continue Reading
This is a follow on posting about my Condusiv V-Locity VM testing carried out back in July. I have carried out testing on the Synology DS1513+ NAS using both iSCSI and NFS. Lab Setup Host Hardware ESXi HOST: Shuttle XPC… Continue Reading