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vMetrics 1.2 Plugin for WordPress – Multiple Cluster Edition

Posted on 13th July 2015 by Simon

I have been a fan of both Nick Weaver’s WP-vSphereStats and Sean Duffy’s fork of that – vMetrics Plugin for WordPress but one of the things missing from vMetrics was additional Clusters. I asked on Twitter if anyone knew how… Continue Reading →

Blogging, Cluster Edition, Uncategorised, vCenter, vMetrics, vSphere, WordPress Plugin
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How to Update or Patch the vCenter 6 Appliance

Posted on 8th July 2015 by Simon

With the release yesterday of vCenter 6.0.0b I decided to do a quick post on how to patch your VCSA appliance. Please download VCSA patch from here.

Blogging, Patching, Uncategorised, vCenter, vCSA, vSphere
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Creating a CentOS 7 VMware Gold Template – Updated for Deployment Fix

Posted on 23rd February 2015 by Simon

I have created a new post here that details the most up to date information for CentOS 7.x Templates.   I have documented how to create a CentOS 7 VMware Gold Template for all the non-Linux admins out there. Following the… Continue Reading →

CentOS 7, Home Labs, Linux, Template, Uncategorised, vCenter, Virtualisation, VMware
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vRealize Operations Manager 6 – Initial vCenter Configuration

Posted on 24th December 2014 by Simon

In previous posts I have demonstrated the installation and initial configuration for the vRealize Operations Manager 6 installation. At the end of the last post we were left at the log on screen to continue the configuration. Log in with… Continue Reading →

Home Labs, Uncategorised, vCenter, vCSA, Virtualisation, VMware, vRealize Operations Manager, vROPS 6, vSphere
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Using Managed Object Browser to remove old vCOPS Registration

Posted on 23rd December 2014 by Simon

Playing around in my home lab over the last couple of months I carried out an installation of vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), had a look around it and then promptly deleted the vApp after a month or so. Spring forward… Continue Reading →

Home Labs, MOB, Uncategorised, vCenter, vRealize Operations Manager, vROPS 6
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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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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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