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Installing the Home Lab – Installing vCenter 5.5 on Windows 2012R2

Posted on 1st December 2013 by Simon

This post will detail all the steps required to install vCenter 5.5a on to a Windows 2012R2 guest machine, I should add that at the time of writing 2012R2 isn’t on the supported OS list and that there is an… Continue Reading →

ESXi, Home Labs, Training, Uncategorised, vCenter, VMware, vSphere, Web Client, Windows 2012 R2
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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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vCloud Suite 5.5 Announcement

Posted on 26th August 2013 by Simon

VMware have announced updates to their vCloud Suite product. VMware have extended the number of products that are included in the vCloud Suite 5.5, this includes vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) availability in all editions rather than just the Enterprise Suite.… Continue Reading →

Cloud, Uncategorised, vCloud, Virtualisation, VMware, VMworld, vSphere
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What’s new in vSphere 5.5

Posted on 26th August 2013 by Simon

VMware has just announced the vSphere 5.5 product at VMworld 2013. Here are the new features and enhancements. vSphere ESXi Hypervisor Enhancements Hot-Pluggable SSD PCI Express (PCIe) Devices Support for Reliable Memory Technology Enhancements for CPU C-States Virtual Machine Enhancements… Continue Reading →

ESXi, Uncategorised, VMware, VMworld, vSphere
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vCenter 5.1 Logbrowser Error – Unauthorised access fix

Posted on 9th July 2013 by Simon

After a recent upgrade to our vCenter 5.1 infrastructure we discovered that we were getting the following error when trying to use the log browser component of the web client. Having tried a number fixes from the usual sources (Derek… Continue Reading →

Log Browser, Uncategorised, vCenter, VMware, vSphere, Web Client
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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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VMware Converter 5 Error – No Source Disk

Posted on 1st July 2013 by Simon

During a recent VMware Converter P2V conversion I ran across an issue where I was getting an error and the conversion process would fail to obtain hardware information from the source machine. I could install the client just fine but… Continue Reading →

Microsoft, P2V, Uncategorised, VMware Converter 5, vSphere, Windows 2008 R2
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vShield Endpoint – Not applicable to ESX version below 4.1 Patch 3

Posted on 19th June 2013 by Simon

Came across a little issue today when trying to install the vShield Endpoint on to a number of our ESXi hosts today, with the hosts evacuated I clicked on the vShield tab to install the Endpoint onto the host and… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised, Virtualisation, VMware, vShield, vSphere
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Installing ESXi to a USB key using VMware Player or Workstation

Posted on 14th June 2013 by Simon

I recently had to install ESXi onto a server without a cdrom drive fitted, the quickest and easiest method for me to do this was installing ESXi using VMware Player or Workstation and installing it directly onto the USB key.

ESXi, Uncategorised, Virtualisation, VMware Player, VMware Workstation, vSphere

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