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V-locity 5 Install and Configuration

Posted on 17th July 2015 by Simon

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 →

Blogging, Condusiv, Home Labs, Performance, Storage, Uncategorised, V-locity, VDI, Virtualisation, VMware, vSphere, Windows 2012, Windows 7
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Condusiv V-locity 5 Testing

Posted on 2nd July 2015 by Simon

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 →

Blogging, Home Labs, Performance, Storage, Uncategorised, V-locity, VDI, Virtualisation, vSphere, Windows 2012 R2
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Installing the Home Lab – Configuring ESXi Syslog Settings

Posted on 10th December 2013 by Simon

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 →

Blogging, Home Labs, Log Browser, Storage, Synology, syslog, Uncategorised, vCenter, Virtualisation, vShield
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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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Home Lab 2013 – Storage

Posted on 9th July 2013 by Simon

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 →

Home Labs, iSCSI, NFS, Storage, Synology, Uncategorised, Virtualisation, 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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Invalid configuration for device ’0′. vNIC error.

Posted on 28th May 2013 by Simon

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 →

Storage, Uncategorised, Virtualisation, VMware, vSphere
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Configuring FreeNAS 8.3 – iSCSI and NFS Storage for VMware vSphere

Posted on 14th May 2013 by Simon

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 →

FreeNAS, iSCSI, NFS, Storage, Uncategorised, Virtualisation
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Iomega IX4 – Non Cloud to Cloud Upgrades are not a good idea

Posted on 6th March 2012 by Simon

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 →

Blogging, Iomega IX4, Storage, Uncategorised

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