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Voting now open for the 2014 Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs

Posted on 25th February 2014 by Simon

It’s that time again, Eric Siebert from vSphere-Land.com runs a vote for the top VMware and Virtualisation blogs. As there are now over 300 blogs listed on the nominations page there are a lot of sites to choose from. The… Continue Reading →

Blogging, Uncategorised, Virtualisation, VMware
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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 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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Veeams’ Ultimate New Year’s Resolution 2014

Posted on 2nd December 2013 by Simon

      Exclusively for the virtualization community, Veeam raffles great prizes that will improve IT Pros daily working experience! Join the raffle and be fully equipped for 2014! Register now to get one of the following prizes: Tablet of… Continue Reading →

Blogging, Uncategorised, Veeam, Virtualisation
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Installing the Home Lab – VMware Certificates – Part One

Posted on 22nd November 2013 by Simon

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 →

Certificates, Home Labs, Microsoft, PKI, SSL, Training, Uncategorised, Virtualisation, VMware, Windows 2012 R2
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Creating vCenter and VUM 5.5 databases.

Posted on 29th September 2013 by Simon

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 →

Home Labs, SQL2012, Uncategorised, vCenter, Virtualisation
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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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Condusiv V-locity VM Testing – Synology DS1513+

Posted on 16th September 2013 by Simon

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 →

Blogging, Home Labs, Synology, Uncategorised, Virtualisation

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