So I was recently offered the chance to test drive V-locity 5 to see how it compared against the previous V-locity VM product that I tested nearly two years ago, one of the big differences between the two products is… Continue Reading
Nearly two years ago I was given the opportunity to take out the Condusiv Technologies V-locity VM version 4 product for a spin in my home lab, the results were pretty positive and certainly something I would suggest to anyone… 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
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
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
Whilst doing some work on one of our Windows 2008 R2 templates (AV Upgrade) I discovered that we had an issue with the network being un plugged and not connecting, it turns out that the template had recently been Storage… Continue Reading
This post will guide you through the configuration of FreeNAS 8.3 for use on VMware vSphere. It is assumed at this stage that only the installation has been completed, we still need to create and configure the storage. Log in… Continue Reading
Questions have been asked whether this was possible and for a short period of time Iomega even published instructions on their site on how to do it (but quickly pulled them, more on that later). The differences between the non… Continue Reading