Things to keep in mind if upgrading to vSphere 5.5
If you are a super early adopter there are a few KB articles that you will want to keep an eye on if you are looking to go to vSphere…
Tags: vSphere 5
Installing HP CIM drivers on ESXi 5.0
What is CIM? CIM means Common Information Model, and they allow for communication between the ESXi Operating System and the hardware sensors. Why do I need it? Normally I am…
Tweaking VMware’s Round Robin Settings
One thing that should always be done when using 1Gb iSCSI is setting up Multipathing, and in all version of vSphere they have included NMP or Native Multi Pathing. With…
vSphere 5 Redo Log Warnings + Veeam Issues
I found a new error in vSphere 5 today that I haven’t seen in previous versions of vSphere purely by accident. I set up a Veeam Backup and Replication VM…
vSphere 5.0 Ready for Download
Last night VMware officially released vSphere 5.0 for download. If you have a current support contract you can head on over to VMware.com and start flooding your internet connection. Or…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 3: vSphere 5 and vShield
This is part 3 of the multipart series on how I am building a public vCloud lab, this post will explain vSphere 5.0 setup on each of the host machines…
What I’m looking forward to at VMworld 2011
With exactly 29 days until I’m on a plane destined for Vegas, I thought I would share what I’m looking forward to the most at VMworld 2011. 2011 is my…
Is vSphere 5 Storage Appliance a good buy?
VMware is targeting SMB’s and branch offices for its latest vSphere add-on. The vSphere 5 Storage Appliance offers customers the choice of putting internal storage in their ESXi servers and…
vRAM: Some Good News
I was reading through some partner documentation and found two question and answers that I think will help ease some of the anger surrounding vRAM Entitlements in the VMware user…
vSphere 5 Free Hypervisor = Useless
UPDATE: VMware has revised the vRAM entitlements (it’s now 32GB instead of 8GB) for all of its products. Therefore this post is pretty much void, and you can get more…