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How to install VMware Tools for Easy Cross-Hypervisor Migrations

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

Overview This is a companion article to the Hyper-V Integration Services Installation article I did recently. If you are looking to move a non-VMware based machine to VMware with minimal…

Disabling IPv6 on AutoDeployed Reference Host

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Yesterday I was helping a customer troubleshoot some AutoDeploy questions about ESXi 5.1, and one of his questions was… “How do I turn off IPv6 for my auto deployed blades”?…

HP P2000 G3 – Upgrading to get VAAI Support

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

I just wanted to give all of the Hp P2000 G3 owners a heads up that there is an updated firmware version available that adds VAAI support to your SAN.…

VUM Update Staging Fails

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Monday I was working on a customer’s system and showing them all the nice features of VMware, I also showed them Update Manager and tried to update their Hosts… and…

Recipe for SMB Clusters

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Justin Paul | 13 Comments

Ingredients: 1 – VMware Software Package 1 or 2 – Gigabit Network Switch 2 or 3 – 64-bit Capable Server 1 – SAN Directions: Load servers with VMware ESXi, configure…

The Missing Manual Part 1: Veeam B & R Direct SAN Backups

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Justin Paul | 41 Comments

One thing that I had problems with the first time I installed Veeam was the ability to backup Virtual Machines directly from the SAN. Meaning that instead of proxying the…

vSphere Solution Design (Pt1. Before Course)

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Next week I will be attending a VMware vSphere Design Course in Chicago and thought it would be interesting to write an article on designing out a virtualization solution before,…