Mounting NFS Volumes NFS is popular protocol for both Linux and found on multi-protocol arrays. It’s very simple to setup on the ESX host. All […]
Back To Basics: Configuring Storage: Datastore Folders and Names (Part 4 of 6)
Datastore Folders: Once you have a significant number of datastores it is possible to create a folder structure for holding them. This can be useful […]
Back To Basics – Configuring Storage: Managing VMFS Volumes (Part 3 of 6)
VMFS is VMware’s File System and its used primarily with device that present themselves as block SCSI devices such as disks/LUN/Volumes that are attached to […]
Back To Basics – Configuring Storage: iSCSI (Part 2 of 6)
Configuring iSCSI Storage Introduction iSCSI storage is another block-level protocol that present RAW LUNs/Volumes to the ESX host using combination of Ethernet/TCP-IP technologies. iSCSI communications […]
Back To Basics – Configuring Storage: Fibre Channel (Part 1 of 6)
Introduction vSphere supports wide variety of storage configurations and optimisations. Virtual Machines can be stores on local, fibre-channel, iSCSI and NFS storage. There is all […]
Back To Basics: Configuring Standard vSwitch with PowerCLI (Part Three of Three)
In this final part of the three parter on the Standard vSwitch I look at exactly the same configuration as achieved with the Web Client. […]
Back To Basics: Configuring Standard vSwitch (Part Two of Three)
Introduction In Part One of this series on Standard vSwitches I looked at creating internal, basic and NIC Teamed vSwitches – together with a configuration […]
Back to Basics: Creating Standard vSwitches (One of Three)
Introduction Standard vSwitches have been around in VMware ESX since the very earliest days – they are a robust, well-known technology and despite the advances […]
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 […]
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 […]