Virtualization
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Overlapping Subnets Lab Environment
A while back I wrote up a post about creating an isolated test environment using the same ips and subnets with VMware. This post was written from a layer 2 perspective with users who needed access gaining access to that…
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New HTML5 vSphere Web Client
With the new host UI that is present with vSphere ESXi 6 update 2, it gives us a taste of what the HTML5 web client might look like. But alas, we don’t have to wait! With the new fling available…
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Storage Admin Weekly Checklist
If part of your system administration tasks involve managing storage especially for virtualization host targets, there are several things that you should probably be doing on a weekly basis to make sure the environment is healthly. The steps I outline…
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Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 6.2
In rolling through quite a few upgrades recently, I wanted to posted some screenshots and process notes of upgrading vROPs 6.0.2 I had running in my environment to 6.2. The process is fairly standardized with VMware’s appliances and for the…
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Simulate latency virtualization test lab
One of the coolest parts of having a virtualization environment is that you can setup as many labs as you want or as many as you have the hardware resources for I might say. As a current project setting up…
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Expecting 2 bootbanks found 0 VMware ESXi 6
I ran into a pesky issue yesterday when rolling through a slew of host updates in a few production clusters. I had one host that presented with some odd issues during the update manager remediation phase. After rebooting the particular…
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Update manager Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.0 update 2
Below are the simple and easy steps to get your ESXi 6.0 u1 or earlier installation to update 2 (3620759) version. Using update manager the process is very simple. Make sure before updating your hosts that you have updated your…
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VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 Host Client
With the release of ESXi 6.0 Update 2, one of the cool things with this release is VMware has included as RTM the Host Client which is written in HTML5 and allows administrators to have quick and easy access to…
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Agentless protection Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
As I mentioned here in the upgrading to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1 post, one of the most anticipated features for me of Rapid Recovery was the agentless backup. Having to maintain agents of any kind is not fun for the administrator.…
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Upgrade AppAssure 5.4.3 to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
For those of you that don’t know, Dell’s AppAssure product has been rebranded as Rapid Recovery. With 6.0.1 being released, and touting some very worthy features, I decided it was time to upgrade. In this post we will take a…
