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Installing ESXi to a USB key using VMware Workstation 11

Posted on 24th January 2015 by Simon

This is an updated post covering VMware Workstation 11 instead of Workstation 9, it’s been updated to cover installing using the formatwithmbr switch during the initial boot process as well as highlighting an issue with creating multiple USB keys from… Continue Reading →

ESXi, formatwithmbr, GPT, Home Labs, runweasel, Uncategorised, USB, Virtualisation, VMware Workstation, vSphere
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SanDisk Cruzer Fit – Write Protect on ESXi 5.x – Fix

Posted on 24th January 2015 by Simon

I recently came across an issue with my home lab that indicated I had an issue with my Cruzer Fit going to a Write Protect mode, doing a search online showed that a number of people were also exhibiting the… Continue Reading →

Cruzer Fit, ESXi, formatwithmbr, GPT, Home Labs, runweasel, SanDisk, Uncategorised, USB, VMware, VMware Workstation
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Installing the Home Lab – Installing the Synology Syslog Server

Posted on 10th December 2013 by Simon

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

ESXi, Home Labs, Log Browser, Storage, Synology, syslog, Uncategorised, vCenter, vCloud, Virtualisation, VMware, vShield
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Installing the Home Lab – Creating and Configuring an iSCSI Distributed Switch for VMware Multipathing

Posted on 5th December 2013 by Simon

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 →

ESXi, Home Labs, iSCSI, MPIO, Multipathing, Storage, Uncategorised, vCenter, Virtualisation, vSphere
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Installing the Home Lab – Configuring Synology iSCSI Storage

Posted on 2nd December 2013 by Simon

In earlier posts we have installed and configured vCenter 5.5 as well as assigning hosts to it, in this next post we are going to configure our iSCSI storage to allow us to later setup Multi-Pathing from our hosts to… Continue Reading →

ESXi, Home Labs, iSCSI, Synology, Training, Uncategorised, vCenter, VMware
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Installing the Home Lab – Configuring Datacenters and Hosts

Posted on 2nd December 2013 by Simon

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 →

Blogging, ESXi, Home Labs, Training, Uncategorised, vCenter, Virtualisation, VMware, vSphere, Web Client
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Installing the Home Lab – Installing vCenter 5.5 on Windows 2012R2

Posted on 1st December 2013 by Simon

This post will detail all the steps required to install vCenter 5.5a on to a Windows 2012R2 guest machine, I should add that at the time of writing 2012R2 isn’t on the supported OS list and that there is an… Continue Reading →

ESXi, Home Labs, Training, Uncategorised, vCenter, VMware, vSphere, Web Client, Windows 2012 R2
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ESXi 5.5 Upgrade in 7 Steps

Posted on 23rd September 2013 by Simon

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 →

ESXi, Home Labs, Uncategorised, vCloud, Virtualisation, VMware, vSphere
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What’s new in vSphere 5.5

Posted on 26th August 2013 by Simon

VMware has just announced the vSphere 5.5 product at VMworld 2013. Here are the new features and enhancements. vSphere ESXi Hypervisor Enhancements Hot-Pluggable SSD PCI Express (PCIe) Devices Support for Reliable Memory Technology Enhancements for CPU C-States Virtual Machine Enhancements… Continue Reading →

ESXi, Uncategorised, VMware, VMworld, vSphere
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Condusiv V-locity VM Testing

Posted on 9th July 2013 by Simon

During the recent vForum event at Wembley I had an interesting meeting with Condusiv Technologies (formally Executive Software\ Diskeeper). They were showing off the latest release of V-Locity VM. V-locity VM is classed as a Performance Accelerator which offers benefits… Continue Reading →

ESXi, FreeNAS, Home Labs, Iomega IX4, iSCSI, NFS, Openfiler, Storage, Uncategorised, Virtualisation, VMware, vSphere

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