Have a Dozen ESX hosts? PVS Boot ISOs might not scale well.
There are a couple different ways you can design a Provisioning Services Server supported environment to boot up. Virtual Desktops can leverage PXE, Hard Drive or ISO. This…
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Invalid Backing on a Virtual Machine’s Network adapter.
Have you ever noticed Invalid backing on your Network Adapter in the Virtual Machine Property screen? Of course not! You are an administrator! …But if you want to…
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…
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…
Not enough room for vSphere 5 Upgrade? Free some up!
While using VMware’s Update Manager to upgrade a 4.0 ESX host to vSphere 5, I ran into a space issue. Looking at the event tab on the ESX…
AppSpeed 1.5 left behind if you upgrade to vSphere 5.
I dig AppSpeed! I know I might be in the minority here in the sense that most people don’t even know what the product is but trust me,…