Virtualization, Cloud, DevOps, Reviews
Recently in upgrading a production vSphere 5.5 environment to 6.0, I have been working through the individual infrastructure pieces left over to upgrade. Â I spun up a new vRealize Operations…
In the post today I would like to go through the process to update a Dell ESXi 5.5 cluster to 6.0 using VUM. Â Updating a Dell Server cluster running ESXi…
VMTurbo is a great free product out there that is designed to help you monitor your virtual environment free! Â Recently, they have released version 5.2. Â The process to update is…
In building my most recent VMware lab inside of VMware workstation, I wanted to deploy the VCSA 6.0 with Embedded Platform Services Controller and step you guys through the process…
For those of you who are building and working with your own VMware labs and using either physical home lab hardware or maybe using VMware workstation to setup your nested…
The process of updating an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline is a very painless operation.  Especially if you have a standalone host and don’t have access to VUM for updates, this procedure…
If you are into automating tasks in your VMware environment, there is no better way to do those tasks than with Powershell and the PowerCLI commandlets. Â With the release now…
Recently, I was looking to snag a really good VMware home lab switch for a couple of hosts and shared storage to replace an aging run of the mill HP switch…
So with eager excitement all VMware admins out there have been looking to get their hands on ESXi 6.0. Â I am no exception to that rule. Â VMware is a product…
Recently, I had the need to setup a test/development environment that met the requirements of being able to keep the same IPs, subnet, and machine names as the production environment…
