Reader Question : Ask the Readers about VPLEX Backups
A reader asked me this question and I unfortunately did not know of any answers so I thought I would post it up and see if anyone could…
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PSA – No vSphere 5.1 upgrade for PowerPath/VE 5.7 users right now.
With the availability of vSphere 5.1, I am sure those of you on the bleeding edge are starting to craft plans for upgrading but ...If you are running…
vSphere 5–Unable to Create NetApp FC DataStore [Resolved & then Resolved AGAIN :)]
Here’s a pretty particular error that I ran into at a customer site. Brand new ESXi 5.0 installs connected up to a NetApp filer with 4 700 GB…
Better understanding Memory Management in vSphere 5.
Ran into a great KB article (2017642) today that diagrammed the process of memory management for vSphere 5. We’ve all used ESXTOP and the vCenter console to check…
Possible issue with VMware View 5 and vSphere hardware v8
Jeff Miller ran into some interesting issues with his VMware View deployment and kindly shared. I have been working with EMC support for a few months now trying…
Fake News of the day.
Citrix and VMware institute tweet only support: In similar cost cutting moves, both Citrix and VMware customers running free hypervisors (XenServer or ESXi) will be forced to use…
Thanks @JTroyer & @LXmaier #vExperts
Came home recently to a nice gift from VMware. Shiny new vExpert laptop bag with certificate and luggage tag. This year at the VMware Partner Exchange, vExperts were…
vCenter Full of Errors! Not a problem.
Interesting note from a buddy of mine. He logged into his VirtualCenter (5.x) and found almost all of his Virtual Machines with an error condition. Yet there were…
How to Add a 3rd Party driver to a baseline in Update Manager
Working with the Nutanix clusters, I had an opportunity to upgrade them to vSphere 5 via Update Manager. The process of upgrading an ESX host with Update Manager…