One question that came up at the Manchester/North-West VMUG at last weeks “training sessions” was when to use the vSphere Web Client and when to […]
The Great Colocation Lab Sale (UK ONLY)
In the last ten years or so I’m built up, upgraded and replaced a lab environment. After some donations from vendors in the last decade […]
Back To Basics: Installing Other Optional vCenter 5.5 Services
vCenter ships with a number of optional services including ESXi Dump Collector – Redirects kernel panic data to a central location SysLog Collector – Redirects […]
VMUG Question: Apples & Oranges vMotion
At last week VMUG in the North-West England (Manchester) I was asked by the group what would happen if a vMotion was attempted “apples to […]
Using pfSense Firewall with BareMetalCloud/AutoLab
UPDATE: I was recently contacted by the folks at pfsense.org – who have a new updated and detailed guide on using pfsene – I recommend […]
Hyper-V R2ality: A Simple Plan – Hyper-V Recovery Manager Preview
Because what could possibly go wrong? Note: I found a number of different articles and tutorials useful in my experiments. As ever there isn’t really […]
Back to Basics: Installing vSphere 5.5 – VMware Update Manager (VUM)
VMware Update Manager (commonly abbreviated to VUM) is currently the companies primary method updating both VMware ESX hosts, and all so “upgrading” the VMs “virtual […]
#FeedForward – Mentoring VMUG Presenters…
Myself, Scott Lowe and Duncan Epping have been talking offline for some weeks/months about steps that can be done to encourage and support more members […]
Windows Hyper-V 2012 Replicas: Things aren’t always as they seem
As part of my travails in Hyper-V Reality series I decided to take a look at Windows Hyper-V Replicas. The equivalent feature in VMware is […]
Back To Basics: Post-Configuration of vCenter 5.5 Install (PowerCLI)
The next installment of my “Back to Basic” series about doing the typical “post-configuration” of vCenter/ESX this time without web-client, but instead uses VMware’s PowerCLI extensions […]