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 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
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
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
In the first post in this series we installed the Windows 2012 R2 Root Certificate Authority. This, the second in a series of posts details the configuration of the VMware specific Template and the distribution of the Root CA Certificate.… 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
With the change to my Home Lab environment recently I decided to take a fresh look at my storage capabilities and came to the conclusion that whilst the home brew solution was nice I now wanted something a little more… Continue Reading