Introduction In Part One of this series on Standard vSwitches I looked at creating internal, basic and NIC Teamed vSwitches – together with a configuration […]
UK VMUG UNICEF Acknowledgement
Last months UK VMUG was a resounding success – not just for the excellent presentations and sessions presented by industry luminaries and VMUG Members alike, […]
Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2eality – What works best? – Upgrade or Clean Install?
You can read this whole blogpost if you like. But here’s the very short version. Clean install. Nothing has really changed in terms of upgrading Microsoft […]
The Great Colo Lab Sell Off Continues… Update!!!
This week I managed to sell the NetApp 2040 Storage Array I have to a chap in the UK. Were meeting up next Tuesday to […]
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 […]
Running the vSphere 5.5 Web Client on Windows 2012 R2
This blogpost concerns being able to open IE on Windows Server 2012 R2 desktop and being able to login and use the vSphere Web Client. […]
VMUG Questions: How many levels of Nested ESX/vInception
Another question that cropped up at last week Manchester/North-West VMUG was whether there were any limits to Nested ESX and vINCEPTION levels. As you might […]
VMUG Questions: Web-Client Vs vSphere Client Functionality
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 […]