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VMware Academy Training Experience – vSphere 6 ICM Course with 360GSP

Posted on 9th November 2015 by Simon

Over the years I have experienced a lot of VMware training, whether that’s been with a VMware VATC (VMware Approved Training Centre), Directly with VMware or via the VMware Academy route. My previous VCP 4 and 5 training has been… Continue Reading →

Certification, DCV, ESXi 6, Training, Uncategorised, VCP, VCP Training, VCP6-DCV, VMware, vSphere
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Condusiv Technologies V-locity 5 Testing

Posted on 23rd July 2015 by Simon

I have been running the Condusiv Technologies V-locity 5 software on a couple of test machines in my home lab over the last couple of days, alongside those VMs I also ran a couple of VM’s with the older V-locity… Continue Reading →

Blogging, Home Labs, Performance, Synology, Uncategorised, V-locity, Virtualisation, vSphere, Windows 2012 R2
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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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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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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 ESXi to a USB key using VMware Workstation 11

Posted on 24th January 2015 by Simon

This is an updated post covering VMware Workstation 11 instead of Workstation 9, it’s been updated to cover installing using the formatwithmbr switch during the initial boot process as well as highlighting an issue with creating multiple USB keys from… Continue Reading →

ESXi, formatwithmbr, GPT, Home Labs, runweasel, Uncategorised, USB, Virtualisation, VMware Workstation, vSphere
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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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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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